British comedies (Britcoms) have been a part of my life now for around thirty years. Not only are most of them insanely funny, but they offered me something akin to the volumes of books I was reading in my teen years, a look into worlds populated by people who seemed similar to me but who […]
I don’t know what you’re doing this Valentine’s Day weekend, but chances are good it will involve swanky restaurant reservations, watching Love Actually or The Princess Bride, and ingesting startling amounts of chocolate, all of which are among life’s finest pursuits. Those things are most likely in my future, too, but another thing I’ll be
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It was 1993, and I was twenty-eight years old, still single, and living in student housing in southern Alabama. I was about to complete a bachelor’s degree in psychology with no real plans of what to do once that came to pass. One option was to keep working at the local airport and pursue my
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As the end of January approaches, and New Year’s Day shrinks in the rearview, a question lingers in my mind. What is it about holidays that inspires “educational” cable channel producers to air every apocalyptic documentary in their catalog? Even if you think you don’t know what I’m talking about, you probably do. Flip through
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This morning, I realized again that, just over two months ago, I turned fifty years old. Not that I make a habit of forgetting my age, but sometimes things hit you, and other times they hit you, you know? Imagine, for instance, thinking one day that you could stand to lose a couple of extra