LoveLife

As sometimes happens, an episode of LoveLife.digital , the podcast series Alvean Lyons and I created, began playing on the car audio the...

Self-reliance is an enduring theme of the American zeitgeist. Our stories, the mythology that attends our history as a nation, and the...

Say what you will about the past four years and the man who presided over the leadership of our country. Whatever you may think of him...

The seasons and their changes have long been a subject for poets and songwriters endowing each with properties that parallel our lives. ...

People argue for many reasons, most of them unjustified but in some cases disagreements become personal, and inevitably hurtful. If this...

In my forties, I took up Racquetball following an automobile accident that permanently inhibited my ability to serve a tennis ball or...

Last year at this time I posted the following. Several folks asked to see it again and so here it is but with some amendments in light of...

At this time of year and particularly in the wake of our recent election, we are in the midst of a transition, though to what is the...

Help me understand. The gap between our nation's wealthiest and poorest is at an extreme. Many cannot afford to own a home, put gas in...

In the wake of the election, I've been reading quite a few comments--or perhaps I should describe them as laments regarding the outcome....

It seems that folks of all political stripes are yearning these days for a past that viewed through the selective filter of memory was...

As I suspect may be the case for many of you, the volume of email and texts I've been receiving for the past several months is staggering....

A friend of mine just celebrated his 94th Birthday. That in itself is sufficiently rare to warrant comment but it isn't the entire story....

Shakespeare's Hamlet, the source of the quote above seems prophetic and deeply disturbed by the prospect of dreaming, suggesting latent...

In Proust's iconic novel, A la Recherche Du Temps Perdu , the taste of a madeleine is the triggering memory that recalls a childhood the...

On a recent trip to Europe, I was reminded again of the power and pervasive presence of the Roman Empire. For more than 1,000 years the...

Whenever I see an offer that begins with the claim that something is free, my instant reaction is, sad to say, a cynical one. What's the...

In the immediate aftermath of the second world war, hundreds of Japanese marines, soldiers and sailors were stranded on one of the many...

Every once in a long while I have one of those nights--you know the kind, endless, dark and filled with intrusive but fleeting thoughts...

The other day I came across a post from a young man laying out a bill of particulars accusing his parents of a playing favorites with his...