Ashes to Ashes

Unfortunately, the only rites of passage that we elders know much more about are funerals. We attend them too frequently. If humor’s a part of these essays, what’s so funny about death? Of course, we are depressed, unless we are just attending to be seen. Or because we have to, not wish to. Many of …

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Just The Way You Look Tonight

Sunday mornings are my trip through the New York Times. Our local paper actually prints the pages, and I go to the national news section to read the obits. To be sure I am not inadvertently there. The paid ones are on the right-hand side. I look at the photos and invariably there will be …

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