Remembering Daddy
My dad died this morning. Jim Russell was 94 and, after a diagnosis of prostate cancer a few weeks ago and news that…
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The dream with the Alamo on a truck
When you grow up in San Antonio you know something about the Alamo. You know how to get to it and you know…
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Big movies from the 70s, 80s and 90s I really should have seen but somehow never did
By way of confession, here are movies I should have seen but didn’t: 48 HrsAgainst All OddsAnnie HallBack to the FutureBeachesThe BodyguardBraveheartChildren of…
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Dinner with the Clichés
Roberta Cliché prided herself on her cooking. She considered herself the Queen of Westchester where food was concerned. Manuelo Cliché, Roberta’s husband, was…
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There was that time when…
…Barbra Streisand asked me to tell her husband she was ready to go. …I noticed Danny De Vito in my living room, and…
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Scarred for life
I’ve heard it said that a scar adds character to a man, perhaps because it implies adventure, danger, a past. I don’t think…
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Two unpleasant Canadians
In 1987, while living in Chicago, I fell in love with Toronto. The first time I visited, my plan was to spend a…
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Counting backward
There is a little game with which I amuse myself in which I take my age, or that of other people, and figure…
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The dream with the undelivered mail and the security officers
The dream began at a party, though I am not clear as to the precise environment of the party. It might have been…
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Something about snails
I read a minute ago that the French eat 50 million snails a year. Wait. Let me clarify. I read just now in…
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