The NY Times Book Review recently featured what it called, The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. That's so far, of course. There's a lot of century left. But as well read as I feel I am, I noted I had read just a fraction of the 100 deemed "best." Odd bodkin, I...
As winter slowly turned to spring this year, my wife and I rearranged the furniture in our upper-story living area so chairs and couches face the river, turning our backs to the 70-inch television we watched through long, rainy Oregon nights. We were immediately...
When I hit 55, I did a mathematical calculation about how many months, weeks and days I had in my life until I turned 75. That’s roughly 240 months, 1,042 weeks or 7,300 days, in case you wondered. Seventy-five years old! From the perspective of a 55-year-old, that...