I was grateful to my neighbor for helping me with a technical problem.  He’s the resident guru on computers at the retirement center and far too modest about himself. Aware that I might need his advice in the future, I asked if he’d care to adopt me despite my advanced age.  A s

I sat down to brunch with a married couple I’ve known for years.  The friendship is so comfortable, we dare to talk about religion and politics.  Mostly we discuss books. The husband told me he was working through the novels of a Japanese woman who wrote fantasy.  He couldn’t r

My father lived with my mother and me until I turned 7.  Every Sunday, he and I would jump into the car, always an Oldsmobile, and we’d drive to the center of town to buy the newspaper.  If the first vendor we met was black, my father drove on, until he came to a white man

As technology keeps drawing  people around the globe together, tribal instincts that once served us well, are putting us in danger.  Some of the examples of tribalism are near to insanity: The owner of a convenience store in New Mexico put up a sign recently:  “Obama and other Mu

After the November 8 election, a friend sent me the November 11, 2016 OP Ed piece by David Brooks from the New York Times.  A number of my liberal friend speak kindly of the writer.  He is their token conservative, I presume.  In deference to them I reprint his remarks and follow w