Good intentions are often misplaced as in the above photo. A young ad man proudly showed off his language skill and used this popular English phrase as an eye-catching slogan. It was a great success among foreigners who came in droves with their cameras. Surely the store owner was pleased. Similarly a Vietnamese restaurant near [...]
Being from the big city (Portland, Maine: 75,000), my one memorable experience of rural life was a Boy Scouts overnight trip to a farm. First, tents were put up in a pasture, carefully avoiding the cow pies and then off to the fields for “tasseling the corn.” Having no idea what that meant, I gamely [...]
As all my friends know, I am a martyr to my diet with ceaseless determination to lose 25 pounds. Recently I was shaken to the core by a drastic turn of events – the Hostess Corp. has filed bankruptcy proceedings. Never a food junkie, I have on rare occasions taken comfort from a Twinkie or, [...]
The older we get the more we realize even simple phrases heard in our youth have an actuality of surprising contradiction: “He lived life to the fullest” often equals, “He was a lush and womanizer.” And we all know what “confirmed bachelor” really means. One hears, “I wish I knew then what I know now.” [...]
We, the conquerors of the typewriter and mimeograph machine; we, who can type, take shorthand and fearlessly faced Dictaphone transcription; we, keepers of books with nothing but a pencil and eraser, now find our skills redundant. Adding to the humiliation is the recent triumph of our humble servant the telephone. Once so easy to use, [...]
My expectancy of a certain level of general knowledge is too often sadly unmet as happened this morning with a call to an un-named international airline to change the layover time on a United flight from Tokyo to San Diego via San Francisco. There was only a one and a half hour layover before departure [...]
Happy New Year! The New Year’s Eve festivities reminded me of when it was obligatory for gays and lesbians of my era to not just attend New Year’s Eve parties, important school dances and formal proms, but horror of horrors, show up with a date of the opposite sex! These ordeals started with a push [...]
Several recent studies have dealt with the age discrimination and problems senior gays and lesbians face as they age. More often than with the general population, we have no children to take care of us; we have higher breast cancer rates and half of Americans living with HIV will be over 50 by 2015. Lacking, [...]
The blind date has never lost its popularity. With my family, it was to make me happy with a nice young woman; later my friends assumed the unasked for obligation and tried to make me happy with a nice young man. Recently, the difference of being “young” has morphed into “young at heart.” I have [...]
Aging has changed me to a point where many things I once enjoyed are now things I just can’t take. This includes much of the TV fare of today. For example, take those appalling Housewives. Most are rich (thanks to rarely, if ever, seen husbands) and seem to do nothing but shop and bitch, eat [...]
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