Nows and Forevers

I’ve got a love-hate relationship with podcasts. I’ve been listening to them on and off for more than 15 years, during the first wave in the middle 2000s and then again over the last decade. I’ve enjoyed any number of them, whether it’s “RadioLab” or “Ask Me Another” from public radio or content from the… Continue reading

I’m old enough to remember when TV was free, at least after the set and the electricity. Today, it’s anything but. I am paying more than $200 a month for the privilege to watch TV. This isn’t a cranky old guy complaint. Even when I got my first apartment in 1990, cable TV was only… Continue reading

This is the first time, I think, that a member of my father’s family ever made the front page of a newspaper. And above the fold! I got this a few weeks ago from my father, who had gotten it from my aunt who was cleaning out stuff that hadn’t been touched since the 1930s.… Continue reading