Category: June 2013

  • MIND AND BODY

    In writing this essay, I am speaking for a person born in 1918, one born in 1920, and myself, born in 1922.  So you see, there are no spring chickens among the three of us.  Not long ago, a question arose from the one born in 1920 of whether he would prefer to keep his…

  • MORE OF BITS AND PIECES, AND ODDS AND ENDS

    You will recall – or I hope you will recall – that these are bits that come from my notepad and that there is no connection from one subject to another.  So we continue with the spirit of bits and pieces, odds and ends.  The first thought has to do with the cicadas.  It might…

  • VLADIMIR PUTIN’S DIVORCE

    Vladimir Putin, the head man in Russia, took his wife out to attend a ballet performance.  At the intermission, he was asked by a reporter, first, how he enjoyed the ballet and, secondly, if he was going to become divorced soon.  In a display of modesty for Vladimir Putin, he announced that he was indeed…

  • BITS AND PIECES; ODDS AND ENDS

    On my desk I have a tape recorder into which I dictate notes about future essays.  It is an audible tape recorder in view of the fact that I can no longer see to write and writing is incomprehensible to me.  After I have dictated a series of comments into my notepad, I usually publish…