Of course, I don’t remember how the notion of revisiting the movie, Tender Mercies, occurred to me a week or two ago. But I’m glad it did. Despite his storied career, it was the only movie for which Robert Duvall won the Academy Award for Best Actor. And...
We had a family powwow over Christmas to discuss my memory. Along with other issues relating to my wife’s and my advancing years. And, believe you me, this getting old stuff isn’t for sissies. Our son, Byron, who works at Google, had driven home from...
The longer I live, the more apparent it is to me that my memory is a very queer thing. In fact, curiouser and curiouser. Ask me what I did yesterday, and you’re likely to get a blank stare. Or, perhaps, “Uh, lemme think . . . ” And, yes, I’ll...
The first thing that crossed my mind this fall when I’d forgotten both my wife’s birthday and our anniversary? After, that is, I’d identified the nearest hidey-hole in which to duck and cover ? Obvious: come up with an excuse. And if there’s a...
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Christmas, 2020 It’s tough to know what to say about a year like 2020. Conjure up Dickens? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”? Maybe. But it’s not easy to look back on 2020 and summon up anything like “best of...
