A Life Lived Backwards: One Man's Life

A Life Lived Backwards: One Man's Life


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WELLFLEET HISTORY TOLD
March 15, 2024

As an historian, I was intrigued to receive a letter from the Wellfleet Historical Society that they planned to undertake an oral history project, to be converted and bound into text, in the Summer of

PRODUCING YOUR OWN BOOK
February 25, 2024

As said, I had some time when getting a trade publisher proved problematical. Then illustrator and friend, Holly Sullo, advised me that as the owner of the copyright to Intimate Conversations, I cou

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)
January 30, 2024

I may have surprised my esteemed collaborator, Jordan Rich, when he opened this podcast with the question, Where do you think mankind is headed? I answered, I think we are headed for the destructio

MOVIES THEN AND NOW
January 09, 2024

There is no question that the really good movies hold a mirror up to ourselves, just as do good operas like Mozarts astounding, The Marriage of Figaro. Early on movie production artists realized ho

GROWING OLDER
November 10, 2023

One of the great features of growing older is the fun and interest of being close friends with people of whom we never tire, with whom the conversation always waxes. Such folks inspire us to talk open

THE FRIENDSHIP OF NEIGHBORS AND LONG LIFE
August 28, 2023

Everybody knows Covid changed the pattern of our lives. So too have the crevices now cracking the political landscape of our country. Neighbors used to be friends, adults mixing with kids, young and o

BOSTON THE HUB OF THE UNIVERSE AND FRIENDSHIP
July 03, 2023

Quite a claim, but true. Arent zillions of folk drawn to this great city by its multiplicity of attractions from the historicity of its appearance to its institutions of education, health care, biote

JORDAN RICH ON FRIENDSHIP
June 14, 2023

Every once in a while, I like to turn the tables and interview the interviewer on this podcast series. So I did when I interviewed Jordan Rich on depression, and here we are again on friendship, anoth

WRITING YOUR OWN MEMOIR – A PATH TO A BRIGHTER FUTURE
April 05, 2023

That is the title of a course Im teaching this Summer at the iconic Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill under the guidance of longtime Director, the able Cherie Mittenthal. First a word about ti

LIFE, DEATH, AND CLOSE CALLS IN THE HOLY LAND
February 28, 2023

When Lois and I visited Israel in the Spring of 1973 around six months before the Yom Kippur War, the atmosphere between the Jews and the Arabs seemed reasonably quiescent. One more cautious than me w