Perhaps one of the only benefits to growing old is the realization that forces beyond our control sometimes affect our behaviors without us ever knowing it, and in hindsight, the reasons for these unpredictable patterns of behavior often appear plainly and without camouflage. The real joy comes when we are able to laugh at ourselves [...]

There’s a change in the air here, a new blemish in the atmosphere, inescapable to even the most casual observer. When I was a kid (back in ‘Nam), there seemed to be a few things we never worried about in these parts, things that seemed reserved only to our cousins down in Knoxville, Tennessee, such [...]