When we come from fear

September 23, 2026
Sometimes people don’t come from anger or any other emotion. Even if that's how it seems. Instead, they come from fear. In fact, I'd lay odds on the fact that most of us come from fear most of the time: Fear of being rejected. Fear of losing control. Fear of not being enough. Fear that if we...

The fountain of denial

April 24, 2010
Something about the Cher concert has bothered me, and it's related to my thoughts on women trying desperately to hang on to their youth.I won't beat on the plastic...

Women becoming cyborgs

April 23, 2010
There seems to be a disturbing trend afoot: women are paying good money to look like cyborgs. Or worse. I mean, those unnatural lips are bad enough, but did she have to...

The examined life is hell

April 22, 2010
I'm sitting here in red rocks country thinking about the fact that we're all seekers, in one form or another, carrying our lanterns and following the beacon that we...

A night for geezers & gays

April 20, 2010
Cher is an icon.Larger than life, really.So when we had an opportunity to see her show at Caesars Palace tonight, we seized it. Along with a couple thousand other...

Satire before some of you were born

April 20, 2010
I'll have lots to say later, but for now, how about a flash from the past? Before there was SNL and really, setting the stage for clever, satirical humor, there was Tom...

To the manor born

April 19, 2010
The other day Southwest offered via email to let us check in early for our Las Vegas flight. For 10 bucks each. “Why spend the money,” I thought.But when we got to...

Change in plans

April 19, 2010
My girlfriend is unable to go to our spa in Utah this month after all, but I absolutely am going alone, as I did a few years ago.I'm very much looking forward to as many...

True, False or both?

April 18, 2010
There will always be the true and the false in everything.It's a line in an early draft of something a friend wrote and for some reason it's stuck with me, even...

Who hasn’t felt like this?

April 17, 2010

Clutter? or treasures?

April 17, 2010
I'm still "unpacking."Seems to me that most people who write are packrats, especially those of us who write memoir. Maybe it's just an excuse, but unpacking is taking a...

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