Sweet sixteen

Unless you’re wearing 3D glasses right now, you really shouldn’t think that that flying object is something that properly belongs inside the TV screen. Alex is turning 16 on Tuesday and Speedy came home last night with the remote-controlled helicopter for her. For her birthday. And, perhaps, to congratulate her too. She was “Miss Best ... (more)

Nearer 50 than 40, and having a ball

Everyone said you start feeling old after your 20s but I felt nothing like that when I turned 30. I was enjoying raising two young girls and having a ball. Everyone said that at the onset of midlife, you start asking yourself what you have done with your life and really start feeling old. Not ... (more)

Birthday party

birthday-party

My bucket list

(Today’s column) “The Bucket List” is a film starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. I saw it several months ago and it just seems like the most relevant idea to me today. Edward Cole (Nicholson) and Carter Chambers (Freeman) are terminal cancer patients with six months to live. They meet when they become roommates in ... (more)

Be back tomorrow

Have to go and blow the candles on my birthday cake. P.S. My Tastebook is out. The link is on the sidebar. P.P.S. I made a bucket list. You know, like you’ve lived half your life and you think about what else you want to do before the second half is over. It’s coming out ... (more)

A birthday gift for a 16-year-old girl

Sam is turning 16 on August 20 but we gave her the birthday gift of her choice last Sunday. His name is Twix (after the breakfast cereal chocolate bar, according to Sam) and he’s a pomspitz — a crossbreed of a pomeranian and a Japanese spitz. And, yes, we keep him as far away as ... (more)

Birthday gift and bedtime companions

Tito Rolly forwarded a very inspiring anecdote about a speech delivered by an 87-year-old professor. In part, it says: We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young… being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor ... (more)

A sunburn is not always a bad thing

The title is a figure of speech, of course. Sunburn is always nasty but, today, it is simply an attestation to a very enjoyable swimming party. But let’s start from the beginning.

Pasta, a birthday, a Christmas party and a book

It’s going to be a busy weekend. But I feel energized. Actually, I feel great. For the first time in so many months, I’m writing the way I always wanted to. I finally acknowledged what had been staring at me in the face for a long time. Not following the political news — not paying ... (more)