I’M DEPRESSED (8/4/20)
This is an old column I’m bringing up-to-date today because if I thought I was depressed then, I had no idea what depression could be in...
This is an old column I’m bringing up-to-date today because if I thought I was depressed then, I had no idea what depression could be in...
In New York City on July 12, Davell Gardner, a sweet little one-year-old baby, was sitting in his stroller at a family barbecue. All of a...
This is practically the same birthday column I write every year. But this, of course, is the weirdest year in all the weird years of my...
I believe that black lives matter. I always have and I always will. But I can believe that black lives matter without believing in the...
I'm going with an old column this week because I'm depressed that there's nothing funny in the world we live in. There is sickness and...
I wrote a version of this column last year, and if I'm still here I will publish it again next year: "O beautiful for spacious skies,...
I'm sick of COVID-19. I'm sick of whites vs. blacks. I'm sick of Democrats vs. Republicans. I'm sick of straights vs. gays. I'm sick of...
The world is changing too fast for me. I'm taking a break this week. This is an old column. Maybe it will make you smile. Maybe it will...
"Yesterday All my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday." I can't get the...
Given the restrictions and rules of our current plague, I was conflicted about doing this column that I run every year about the joys of...
This column came about because Denis Hamill, a wonderful writer and a good friend, encouraged me to write it. He said it this way: "My...
GOOD NEWS FOR GRANDPARENTS: THE CORONAVIRUS WILL KEEP YOU FROM ATTENDING ANOTHER OF THOSE HORRIBLE END-OF-TERM SCHOOL MUSICALS One of the...
The news is horrible, so I now spend each waking moment thinking about food. Try it. You'll like it. I'm now sharing my cooking fun with...
It was bound to happen. Since I'm a Republican who didn't and won't vote for Trump, I feel I'm best qualified to advise Democrats (and,...
JEWS & ITALIANS IN THE SUMMER AND A MEMORY OF A STRIPPER NAMED GEORGIA SOTHERN (If you're like me, at this moment you're under house...
I could have beaten the coronavirus to the punch. Today I would be a wonderful dead memory. Instead I’m a live pain-in-the-ass being...
Don’t get mad at me. I know you’re cooped up in your home and both you and your spouse are having sweet, secret, never-to-be-revealed...
-I’m in Miami visiting my beautiful, incredibly brilliant grandson Teddy, who is four months old. In the meantime, this is a rerun of a...
Have you had it up to here with the coronavirus? Me too. It seems the media has decided that it’s great for their news ratings to go...
When you become older than dirt like I am now, you’re going to find that 99% of your past slowly goes off to live in a thick, dark,...