Columns
June 2008
Another View
Saying Good-bye Means Writing One Last Column
Farewell. Adios. Ciao. Adieu.It’s time to put Another View to bed.My first column appeared in a local paper in 1998 — a decade ago. I wrote a piece about my mother’s hands as a way to heal from her... Read More
May 2008
Another View
Standing Naked on Aisle Ten and Other Enlightening Moments
I remember embarrassing moments of my youth with puzzlement. I’m unable to muster up the sheer mortification that would assail me at age 13 whenever my father put on his new dark brown rubberized sandals over... Read More
April 2008
Another View
Betting on Charm Bracelets and Full Houses
The life of my deceased aunt dangles in gold from an old charm bracelet. When a friend who deals in antique jewelry came to visit me recently, I pulled out all the drawers on my jewelry armoire, and we spent an evening... Read More
March 2008
Another View
Elephant Seals Teach the Vision of Now
The rain fell steadily outside my bedroom window as I contemplated this month’s column. Finally the words came to me and I leapt from bed, reaching for one of five eyeglasses sitting on my bed stand.A buddy of... Read More
February 2008
Another View
Safe Passage and Farewell to Friends
Life is a miracle. Students from my writing seminars and classes over the years might gasp in astonishment to read a column of mine that opens with a cliché. But clichés only become tired-out old phrases... Read More
January 2008
Another View
Advancing Wins the War, Smashing Fear to Smithereens
I will win this war — the war I am fighting internally with fear as the enemy. I read in the paper several days ago about a rash of home burglaries taking place in a subdivision not too far from mine. I made an... Read More
December 2007
Another View
Naughty or Nice? It Depends Upon the Trash Involved
I need to make a confession. For the past two months I have been a little bit naughty and a whole lot trashy.It all started when I began preparations for my move to Tallahassee and has continued as I settle into my new... Read More
November 2007
Another View
Be Elvis or Just Be Yourself
I saw a bad Elvis impersonator on a street corner in Portland, Ore., this past summer. I watched him from across the street as I sat with my daughter at an outdoor café in one of Portland’s lovely... Read More
October 2007
Another View
Contemplating How Junk Grows During a Move
Packing up a household requires a warehouse of cardboard boxes.The same genie that eats socks in the washing machine also possesses the powers to grow extra knick-knacks and do-dads and bric-a-brac when it comes time to... Read More
September 2007
Another View
Increase Work Productivity: Hire a Woman in Menopause
I wake every morning around 4:30 a.m., even on vacation. While visiting my daughter in Oregon recently, we found ourselves eating breakfast at a local coffee shop before 8 a.m.“I can’t believe we’re up... Read More
August 2007
Another View
Life on the Road Resembles a Broadway Play
Inspired by recent re-readings of “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac and “Travels with Charley” by John Steinbeck I yearned for adventure as the odyssey on Route 66 began on July 2 in Chicago. My... Read More
July 2007
Another View
Taking the Plunge into the New World of Dating
I usually welcome diving into new things. Flying through the trees in Panama, riding a camel in Morocco, driving on hairpin turns in the mountains of Italy — just another day on the road.But dating at my age? The... Read More
June 2007
Another View
Hope Breathes Life into a Fish Called Whale Bob
Hope lives in a freshwater pond in north Florida.Ethereal and often times elusive, this hope exists in the tales of a largemouth bass named Whale Bob.Whale Bob’s birth occurred a quarter century ago when two... Read More
