This Side of Fifty

  thriftbooks.com I was watching The Natural this evening for the umpteenth time.   The 1984 movie starring Robert Redfor...

  The Grammatical Nerd Huh?   Para-what?   Parapro-who? My friend Owen, who recently relocated from Chicago to Florida,...

  www.itprotoday.com Whenever anyone brings up the subject of too many annoying scam and robocalls, I always say the same...

  Chicagohenge 9-20-19 On June 20, 2012, I first wrote about The Summer Solstice .   Today, I thought about writing about...

  Institute for Mideast Understanding A cool fifty years ago, in my senior year of high school, I read a biography of Dav...

The Guardian There has been a lot of buzz about Naomi Osaka in the news lately.   I really did not know much about her no...

The HBO Special   I was surfing the TV, basically to see what else was on TV.   There were no movies that caught my fancy...