I’m 77— with pancreatic cancer. The chemotherapy has been hell for me, but worse for the tumor. I’m still very much alive; the tumor...

In 1969 I was in Istanbul, living in my VW camper, on my way to India. Istanbul was so exotic and the Sultanahmet district was seedy with...

Strangers, Lack Of Kindness And America’s Most Profound Shame You know that long skinny sliver of land that juts out of northeast...

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I had a wonderful adventure when I was in my twenties and it helped shape the rest of my life. Nixon had been narrowly elected president...

It shocked me when a new member of my health team mentioned to me in our first meeting that I should seriously consider if I was certain...

This One Is On Some Childhood Memories I have very few memories from before I became a man. Jews— even just cultural Jews— consider that...

They Reelected Him Again— 77 Million This Time... We Have To Deal With It When Nixon was elected president over half a century ago, I...

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They May Find Out Soon Enough By my senior year in college, all my professors were friends/customers. I didn’t have to wait around to...

Yesterday, Nate Cohn mused about the new American politics that has come in Trump’s wake … which can even feels like it has been turned...

Christmas was an opportunity for drag I was never a big Christmas fan. I never liked ritual gift-giving for example and hate...

Hint: This Post Isn't About Mansions Traci Park, Elon Musk-- yecchhh Have you ever been homeless? It’s no fun. When I first got out of...

I Have Anti-Trump Friends Who Are Rooting For His RFK, Jr Pick In the mid-70s I lived in Amsterdam and much of my life centered on the...

Warner Bros has several private jets. When I ran Reprise Records, I could order one a day in advance and fly wherever I wanted go. I...

I love Morocco. I started going there in 1969 and I’ve been back more than a dozen times. The charms that made Essaouira my favorite...

I worked at a meditation center in Amsterdam for several years, the Kosmos. Mostly I worked in the restaurant but another one of the...

RFK, Jr Lost His Mind Long Ago At one point, it appeared that something like 5% of American voters were ready to cast their ballots for...

Sometimes I Wonder If Everyone Is As Transgressive As I Am I wasn’t really a Bob Dylan early adapter. I missed the 1962 eponymous debut...

If you follow me on Threads, you may have seen, a couple of hours before sunrise, that I had noted that I'm so old that I heard the...