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Re-Friending Your Life

It took a small village to raise us and our kids. The small village was a fortuitous group of seven young families who met and bonded...

Old Dog, New Trick (a work-in-progress)

About three million. That’s my best estimate of how many times I hit a tennis ball with a racquet during my seventy years playing the...

How Not to Treat a Friend (or Anyone)

Last night I had one of our dearest friends for dinner. That’s “have a friend for dinner” as the psychopathic cannibal Hannibal Lecter...

Being Taught to Hate Works Well

I felt a twinge of hatred on Saturday. Pure. Unadulterated. And well-aged. It had been instilled in me when I was five years...

Gimme a break!

The comfy old American plea “Gimme a break!” has been around for a long time. And we all know what it means: “I’m doing the best I can,...

Done anything for your great grandchildren lately?

Unless you’re a member of the Khasi tribe, your answer would probably be like mine–“Uh, not that I can think of…” The Khasi live on the...