When I was in my 20’s, in what seems to be a different lifetime ago, I worked in the oil industry. I was what was
Category: Culture
Remarkable Disinclinations
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to
Where are…the Treats!
“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an
When I’m…62
“Don’t let them ever do this to you.” Those were the pearls of wisdom my 80-year-old mother told me after her second back surgery, just
Swing Baby, You’re Platinum!
Sitting in my Asylum office, relishing a drizzly, dreary and dank day – the kind of day we rarely get here in the summer in
Musical Interlude – Gabriel Fauré – A Happy Deliverance
“Everything I managed to entertain in the way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by
Dispatches from the Asylum 