In the Welcome Center at Wizard Academy “Sir! Sir! The stairs are closed.” Those little girls were right. The sign on the pole in the middle of the stairs said, “Stairs are closed.” And I was clearly climbing them. I smiled at the pair. “Don’t worry,” I said, “I own the stairs.” Their eyes grew big […]

I know what happens when men retire. I’ve seen it time and again. I do not know what happens when women retire. Perhaps they are plagued by the same maladjustments, discomforts and discontentment as men, but I doubt it. As Michele Miller points out in her fabulous audiobook, The Natural Advantages of Women, females of our […]

“Pamplona is no place to bring your wife. The odds are all in favor of her getting ill, hurt or wounded or at least jostled and wine squirted over her, or of losing her; maybe all three. If anybody could do Pamplona successfully it would be Carmen and Antonio but Antonio would not bring her. […]

Steve Bezos plays harmony harmonica between Jeff Jobs and Jerry Murad in a band called Harmonicats. Everyone knows that. People who live in grass houses shouldn’t stow thrones. Don’t know the parable of the Caribbean king whose grass hut was too small for his bed and his throne? To solve his problem, the king rigged […]

Steve Bezos plays harmony harmonica between Jeff Jobs and Jerry Murad in a band called Harmonicats. Everyone knows that. People who live in grass houses shouldn’t stow thrones, Bob. Don’t know the parable of the Caribbean king whose grass hut was too small for his bed and his throne? To solve his problem, the king […]

“It was Dark Inside the Wolf” “It was dark inside the wolf,” is how Margaret Atwood believes the story might have opened. Emily Dickinson would agree. “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant,” was her advice to those of us who want our emails to be opened, our stories to be read, and our […]



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1. Michael Jackson recorded an album with David Gest setting Robert Burns’ poems to music. 2. Burns’ work has appeared in hundreds of films and television programmes, including It’s a Wonderful Life, When Harry met Sally, and Sex and the City. 3. He managed to have 12 children by four different women even though he […]

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Razor Blade Uproar  Tulsa, Oklahoma (1984)– Cal looked a lot like Denzel Washington, but taller, more muscular, a little more handsome and a lot more stylish. Cal belonged on the cover of GQ magazine. We had just finished a barbecue lunch together when a skinny white moron across the room fired some provocative comments toward […]

The quote is from p. 484 of Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. The photos are of “The Last Bookstore” in Los Angeles. They were taken by Juliet Bennett Rylah.

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“We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball… What bothers me isn’t that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go […]

Just Because “It All Adds Up” Doesn’t Make It True When someone says, “Figures don’t lie,” know this: Figures lie, and liars figure. Never trust a weasel with a calculator. Do you remember the mortgage meltdown of 2008 and The Big Short, the movie that was made about it? There is a scene in that movie […]