“Sometimes I feel like a scout from my generation, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what even the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties” Michael Kingsley writes, in his new book Old…
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MAKE BELIEVE NEWS: BUFFALO, NY – News of the construction anomaly spread faster than a roofer with his nail gun. The Buffalo resident’s bathroom remodel was satisfactorily completed on schedule and on budget. The contractor and homeowner were delighted and…
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“Do not readily reveal yourself or your intentions. It leaves you with more room to maneuver.” Don’t know the origin of this quotation, but I suspect it’s the sort of advice that propagates organically -- because it is practical and…
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“To Stu from (FROM) Muhammad Ali, May 11, 1981” – When the champion admired and then signed the photograph I took of him years earlier, he accidentally wrote “FROM” a second time. He was simply distracted, most likely; though judging…
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MAKE BELIEVE NEWS: NEW YORK CITY – In news certain to knock the publishing world off its celebrated axis, Kim Kardashian West’s Selfish has been bumped from atop The New York Times bestsellers list for “Celebrity Vanity Projects.” Leslie Stahl’s…
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Charles DeCarli, MD, UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Center No medical diagnosis is as feared as Alzheimer’s disease. Literally. Not even cancer. Work at the University of California at Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Center offers us hope though. As the…
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The May 14 article in the New York Times headlined “Solar Project Pairs Muslim and Jews to Aid West Bank Farmers” was shocking and surprising. And the news it announced was encouraging, to say the least. The project is a…
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It was a “Thrill of a Lifetime” for former P.O.W. Mino Ohye to reunite with his brother in Japan from whom he was separated by WWII for nearly six decades. The 2012 reunion of the brothers happened on Ohye’s 86th…
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Here’s my armchair quarterback assessment of the day before yesterday’s “Senior Rally Day” at the State Capitol in California. For the record, these notes could apply to all senior rally days of past. More than 500 people attended the gathering.…
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It happens all the time, decision paralysis: the inability to make up one’s mind. There’s the driver, lacking in confidence or experience, who is unable to make a left turn across traffic. The politician who won’t cast a vote for…
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