Okay, here is my take on the Massachusetts Senate race. I think 
Coakley lost because there was a "tortoise and the hare" type of thing going on and she never addressed the thing spurring most voters this election---fear.  I think people are afraid of the health care refo… Read full post »

Well,  I did bag the peak on the mountain of life, I am truly letting myself be called middle-aged.  No small feat, that admission.  I fought it for a good long time.  I'm one of those people whose life is going to begin when....well all of those "whens" never arrived--or at… Read full post »

Okay, in four days I will bag the peak of the mountain of life--I will officially be middle-aged.  I decided that going out at 90 (or later) would be okay.  So, once I hit 45 (happens this Friday--same day Elvis would have turned 75, should he have lived), I am officially… Read full post »