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I just bought a brand-new candy apple red four-wheel-drive sport model, big-wheeled walker. Its name is Herschel, and it will replace my old walker, which features two small wheels and two pierced tennis balls. In him I am currently terrorizing the...
During the 1950s I had a friend who was kind of quirky. We were both aspiring mountaineers and did some really nice hikes and climbs together. But there was this about him: He took the label off all his possessions because he didn’t want to provide...
With apologies to T.S. Eliot: Here I am, an old man in a cold month, waiting for spring, dictating to a young lady.It’s hard to grasp the difference in perspective between what I was doing happily — living alone at home in the company of a small dog —...
We forget Hiroshima at our collective perilWillem Lange’s Yankee Notebook of Aug. 10 (“Nuclear weapons remain a threat and a travesty”) brought forth sharp memories of the effects of atomic (nuclear) bombings (war) of the future.It was in 1989, while...
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has more adaptations than most pieces of classic literature. From Bill Murray's Scrooged to the Muppets' whimsical take to the...