by mike | Jul 12, 2018 | Aging, California, Life, Uncategorized |
Well, I’m probably still a head case, but not quite the same as I was back in 2014, when this post first ran. 😊 “Hi, I’m Mike, and I’m a head case.” Okay, I hope that didn’t prompt you to counter with the typical twelve-step response, because if it did, I gotta worry...
by mike | Apr 30, 2018 | Aging, Films About Writers, Humor, Life, Movies, Uncategorized, Writing |
In this, the era of #MeToo, when women are making it clear that they’re fed up with the bullshit to which they’ve been subjected from men since the days of the “goodwife,” the 2016 comedy-drama, Year by the Sea, is most timely. Based on a memoir by author Joan...
by mike | Dec 31, 2017 | Aging, Books, Life, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I first ran this New Year’s Eve post a few years ago. Given how relevant it remains, I present it today. Happy New Year! As the year 2017 comes to an end, I got to thinking: how in the name of Zeus’s butthole did it pass so quickly?! I guess when a year is 1/71st of...
by mike | Sep 4, 2017 | Aging, Life, Uncategorized |
Actually, I walk lots of lines: straight, crooked, whatever. It doesn’t matter, as long as I’m walking. As my Facebook friends know, The Walking Dude—that’s me—set a goal of 600 miles for 2017, and that goal was reached around the middle of last month. Not too shabby....
by mike | Mar 16, 2017 | Aging, Life, Uncategorized |
I wrote this post in 2013 and have since turned seventy. Naturally, I wrote about that too. Check out “Oh No, Seven-Oh!!!” Let’s clarify one thing right up front: we are ALL aging, every day, every minute. Doesn’t matter whether you’re seventy-two, or forty-two, or...
by mike | Dec 29, 2016 | Aging, Books, Life, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I first presented this New Year’s post in 2014. Here it is again, with some slight adjustments. As the challenging year 2016 comes to an end this weekend, I got to thinking: how in the name of Zeus’s butthole did it pass so quickly?! (Yeah, I know…not quickly...