January 2018

I was a big fan of Australian columnist Philip Adams in my student years and have continued to read his columns in a weekend paper. I don’t always agree with him, but something I always found admirable was that he had achieved so much. He was prolific, and I aspired to be prolific, afternoon naps […]

A friend was recounting a visit from a Mother and her nine-year-old daughter. As the daughter twirled away on his kitchen floor, he asked the question many of us direct at small children and unemployable relatives, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” “I’m going to Broadway,” she said, quite earnestly. He