The ink was barely dry on last Monday’s Daily Press with my column about pending changes in maximum speed limits on a number of city streets when my phone started ringing.
There are geriatric programs now that encourage medical students to spend 10 days or so in a nursing home — as a patient. They are given a “pretend” disease and diagnosis, and if that means living in a wheelchair and eating a special diet, that’s what they do.
Borrowing from John Steinbeck, who borrowed it from Shakespeare, it’s been the summer of my discontent. Even the weather. Until just this week, August was more like “June Gloom.
On the night Martin Luther King was shot, Robert Kennedy calmed an Indianapolis crowd by quoting from the Chorus in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace
Dear New Shrink/Katie, “I have heard that most jobs are never posted; that if I want to find a job I had better get with it and learn about networking, especially online networking.
The newest show on the A&E network, “Hoarders,” in which people on the verge of breakdowns because of their inability to part with their belongings are showcased, has proved to be a bona fide ratings success.
In January of 1994, then-Attorney General Janet Reno named a special counsel to investigate Bill and Hillary Clinton’s involvement in a failed real estate deal known as “Whitewater.
“You probably heard we ain’t in the prisoner-takin’ business; we in the killin’ Nazi business. And cousin, business is a-boomin’.” — Brad Pitt as Lt.
I love good food, spending time with family and friends and real estate. However, one of the things I dislike most in this world is wasting money, literally flushing money down the toilet.
It’s the end of the summer season. Seriously. We are at the last two weeks before summer is unofficially over and we begin the speed trials to Christmas.
Trees are the most successful, long-lived forms of vegetation on our planet. Some are tall like the redwoods or massive like sequoias while others are exceptional water conservationists.
