Wrinkles
Here’s how to retard the growth of wrinkles, for all of you folks of a certain age, or those of you who plan someday to be of a certain age and want to prepare yourselves. Strangely enough, I already do … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Me, myself, and I
Taps for the greatest generation
Today is the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day. I reposted something I wrote a few years ago in honor of the occasion, but I have a few more thoughts to add. Seventy years is a long time, but not … Continue reading →
Going to…
…a funeral today, so posting will be light. I’ve been thinking about the passage of time lately. I went to a wedding this past Saturday and there was my own childhood friend taking up her role as the mother of … Continue reading →
Tourist in New York
Thanksgiving weekend in NY, and what to do? As in many years past, this year I spent a couple of hours at Rockefeller Center drinking in the season. It’s a classic: the skating rink, the holiday decorations, the huge crowds, … Continue reading →
Broken windows, broken-into cars
Last Wednesday I drove to New York City to be with my family for Thanksgiving. Even though it’s ordinarily one of the worst days for traveling, I was pleasantly surprised to experience traffic that was hardly any worse than usual. … Continue reading →
Ninety is the new eighty
Yesterday at my family’s Thanksgiving dinner in New York we had over twenty people, and two of them—my mother and my aunt—are over 90. Not only are they over 90, but they’re over 95. My mother is 97 but not … Continue reading →
The oldest photos
[Hat tip: Althouse.] Here’s a fascinating look at the world’s oldest photos. They’re probably older than you think: But they’re not older than I’d think. That’s because my mother has in her possession a bunch of family photos from the … Continue reading →
I’m with Ann Coulter on Romney and Romneycare
I’m with Ann Coulter on Romney. Ordinarily Coulter is hardly a favorite columnist of mine, although this isn’t the first time I’ve agreed with her. But it very much surprises me that she’s touting Romney; I would have thought she’d … Continue reading →
I still hate the new Yahoo email
I knew I was going to hate the new Yahoo email, and I now that I’ve been using it for six weeks I can say I was right and I do. I just didn’t know which features were going to … Continue reading →
My mother and the telephone
I call my 97-year-old mother every couple of days. We talk, but the talks have a certain ritual quality. They nearly always begin with her asking me, “How are you and where are you?” Then they segue into old reliable, … Continue reading →
No tears for Tiny tears
As a child I don’t think I was unusually susceptible to the power of advertising. I wasn’t especially into acquiring goods, either. But there were a couple of things I craved because I’d seen them on TV. They seemed magical, … Continue reading →
Feeling your pain
The news is out that a way to objectively document a patient’s pain is being developed: A team at Stanford University in California used computer learning software to sort through data generated by brain scans and detect when people were … Continue reading →