My lady and I paid $360 each for seats at Verdi’s Macbeth last Thursday night, which crossed my mind briefly as we got out of the cab at Lincoln Center and crossed the plaza…
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The time I have spent looking for my glasses — over the 70 years since I got glasses in the fourth grade, it must add up to a couple thousand hours, roaming nearsighted from…
The big blow hit New York over the weekend, flooded streets, kayakers paddling through Queens, ocean waves rolling over the pavements of lower Manhattan, onlookers filming the waves and texting the video to relatives…
She told me out of the blue that she adores me. I was there, in a chair, listening; she was standing by the grandfather clock. She didn’t sing it but she said it clearly.…
The time I have spent looking for my glasses — over the 70 years since I got glasses in the fourth grade, it must add up to a couple thousand hours, roaming nearsighted from…
I did a show just before Labor Day in Annapolis, across the bay from Baltimore, and it was good to look around at Druid Park and Edgar Allan Poe’s neighborhood, Fell’s Point — Poe,…
Last week I got a phone call from an old friend who lives in the mountains of New Mexico and is happy there among the snakes and coyotes and birdlife and wild greenery and I…
My old pal Suzanne Weil says, “If you’re in a good place, then everything that happened before was the right thing because it led you to the place you are now, so you should…
Spending some time at Mayo, much of it ordinary, waiting, listening, doing as told, but some of it primal, such as the CAT scan in which I lay on a narrow platform, hands over…
So I’m working on a new book and then suddenly I’m engrossed in an online story about a 5-bedroom 1.5-acre, $7.5 million home for sale in the Hidden Hills gated community in L.A. and…