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Nine years into a new life and grateful
It’s been nine years since public radio and I split up, a divorce I’m happy about though also grateful for the forty-year marriage. It was a bitter divorce so there was no banquet, no tearful eulogies, and I felt the tremendous relief of never having to participate in another…
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A fallen man picks himself up
Stupidity is a revelatory experience for an old man, his own stupidity, not the lives of the rich and famous but his very own, a man who’s earned a living by his wits who one day does something phenomenally foolish and brings life crashing down. I ignore the news stories about…
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My journey toward winter and wisdom
It came to me while I was trying to figure out the self-checkout in a drugstore, how to register the barcodes, where to put the credit card, though folks my age don’t like the term “checkout,” I say “complete the transaction,” it struck me that Vladimir Putin personally is worth…
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One more night down the drain
I’ve been working long days to finish a new book, a memoir of being a contented 84-year-old, rambling around America doing stand-up and last Friday, sitting in an old library on East 79th Street, I started to feel good about my narrative as it dawned on me how lucky I am and…
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The solution to all our problems, maybe
The big news this week that other planets exist in the cosmos that could support life gives a person hope that Elon Musk will think beyond the moon and Mars and his SpaceX geniuses will build a spaceship that travels the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) and fly to a…
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The giant soprano and sweet baritone
My lady and I paid $360 each for seats at Verdi’s Macbeth last Thursday night, which crossed my mind briefly as we got out of the cab at Lincoln Center and crossed the plaza past the big fountain and got in line at the Met. I’m old and so $360 is a hefty price for the privilege…
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A light is shining in my brain
I took a course in physics sixty-seven years ago when I was 17 and it had less effect on my life than the trillions of neutrinos that pass invisibly through our bodies every second, subatomic particles that come from black holes in space and carry no electrical charge so they…
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Sunday morning breakfast in Gillette
Went out West to do some shows, hoping to get some Republicans in my life, the people I grew up with, and now I’m living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side where they’re as rare as iguanas. Went to Boise, Idaho, and Gillette, Wyoming, and Ogden, Utah, where we had a fabulous singing…
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The happy old guy says hello
I’ve been trying to escape the voice of male narcissism all my life and when I encounter one, I need to leave the room. The guy who needs to tell you all about what he had for breakfast and what he felt about it. The educated ones are the worst because they can talk longer and…
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Weathering the storm in the big city
The big blow hit New York over the weekend, flooded streets, kayakers paddling through Queens, ocean waves rolling over the pavements of lower Manhattan, onlookers filming the waves and texting the video to relatives in Topeka and Council Bluffs. The map showed thousands of…