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I was sent an advance copy of The Miles Levin Story for reviewing, so I lit a fire last night and sat on the couch to look through some reading matter, and I started to read the book. I didn’t stop until I finished it early this morning. Miles Levin got cancer when he was sixteen and died when he was eighteen. While his friends were going off to college and starting the next phase of their lives, Miles was ending ...read more It’s Best of time again, and here are my best of choices from this past year. Best Song No question on this one. Someone Like You by Adele. With lyrics like regrets and mistakes, they are memories made, there is nothing more to be said. The only issue with this song is that they are playing it too much. They did that to Celine Dion’s song for Titanic and I wanted to shoot myself every time it came on the radio. Chris Martin (the ...read more So, you all remember my friends Victor and Cathryn, who live in the now-distant land of Los Angeles. Cathryn and I are best friends from long, long ago in the seventies, when we lived together in an apartment whose living room we painted Grecian Rose, which made it very Bordello-like, and we thought we were awesome. She is my cheap friend who brings fine maple syrup into IHOP, which she introduced me to when I first landed in La-La Land ...read more Today is Oprah’s last show, and I hope you will all watch it, because Oprah is my friend. Oprah went global two months after my fabulous daughter was born. I’m not sure when I started watching, but I’m pretty sure it was close to the beginning. At that time there was no such thing as TIVO, so I didn’t tape it. Let’s say I watched five times a month. I don’t remember any of those shows, but I do remember she ...read more So, it’s tax time again, and I’m getting ready to add up what I paid in taxes and then evaluate the return on my investment in my country. I always get excited about doing that. I know it’s not all about me—I’m a Democrat by nature—but I like to list the pros and cons on paper to make sure I don’t want to move to Monte Carlo, where you pay no taxes and your country doesn’t enter into wars that bog ...read more There is no rewriting in American Literature because we don’t like the words in it, just like there is no crying in baseball. This is America for God’s sake, and we are the ones who protect the accuracy of history. Or at least we are supposed to, and like it or not, the N word is part of our history. Now, to be honest, I never read Huckleberry Finn. But I love Hemingway, who said that “All modern literature comes from ...read more Not that I have a TV problem mind you, but I came to realize that living alone, I do turn on the TV when I get home at night. I have talked to other single home dwellers who say they do the same thing. It’s company. But, if I sit down to watch, I can sit there all night. Or an entire weekend afternoon. And, what’s with me watching the same movies over and over again? Can we talk about ...read more I like books on tape. Over New Years I was heading to Palm Desert to visit friends and thought I would pick up a book for the ride. Jane Eyre was on sale, and I bought it. It was the unabridged series, and it was 14 disks, so you can imagine how long it is; something like 64 hours. I have been listening to it ever since and finished it this past weekend. Six weeks. One book. I forgot what it’s ...read more
I have to begin by saying I can’t stand Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe. So, to review her book without my preordained prejudice calls for more fairness than I am able to muster. With that full disclosure, I can honestly and fairly say the book is terrible. What is with all these people who rise to the top of media without credentials but rather with the name their parents have branded, and then they present themselves as ...read more In case you were wondering, the problem with your love life is that your partner may not be expressing his or her love in the language in which you need him or her to express it. And, all will be well in the love world if you just find out what your partner’s need is and do it. Thus says Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages, how to express heartfelt love to your mate. I was at a business office ...read more |
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