by mike | Dec 29, 2014 | Aging, Books, Life, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
As the year 2014 comes to an end this week, I got to thinking: how in the name of Zeus’s butthole did it pass so quickly?! I guess when a year is 1/68th of your life, that’s what happens. In any case, to slightly paraphrase a cherished line from the movie...
by mike | Oct 6, 2014 | Aging, Baseball, Death, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
My dad, Murray Sirota, passed away at age fifty-nine in 1969, when I was just a mere slip of a lad—more or less. We knew it would happen; a couple of months earlier he’d been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, the end result of a lifetime of cigarette smoking, and...
by mike | Sep 2, 2014 | Aging, California, Life, Uncategorized |
“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 about you. 🙂 Tell the truth, we’re probably all head cases when it comes to one thing or another—something...
by mike | Mar 12, 2013 | Aging, Life |
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 twelve. It’s just that the older we get, the more aware of it we become—and, assuming we’ve gathered some wisdom during all...
