A Life Lived Backwards: One Man's Life

A Life Lived Backwards: One Man's Life


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TED WILLIAMS, PRISCILLA HOWE, AND ME
March 15, 2022

Who was beautiful Priscilla Howe? What has she got to do with handsome Ted Williams? What do I have to do with either one of these two talented people? Youll have to wait until the end of this note t

MY EIGHTY-TWO YEAR LOVE AFFAIR
March 01, 2022

An eighty-two year love affair! That is next to impossible, especially considering that a romance that began in the teen years would now be over one hundred years old! Oh, I forgot, this is a love aff

NONAGENARIANS AND DEMOCRACY
February 15, 2022

Nonagenarians have an advantage over others of lesser years. Starting life in 1932 or earlier they have witnessed a large part of the 20th Century and a significant portion of this one, and all the st

The Two Faces of Rudy Giuliani
February 01, 2022

Within a month after the horrific events of 9/11, I wrote a story entitled, Baseball, Brookline and Giuliani, There existed then another Rudy Giuliani who resembled the one seen lately aspiring to

“John Gallagher and Dr. David Link, Two Jewish Brookline Guys Who Changed the World”
January 25, 2022

John Gallagher Jewish? Sounds Irish to me. The John Gallagher who was the President of the world famous Longwood Cricket Club where tennis is king and was deplored for its policy of not admitting Jews

Looking Backwards to See the Future
January 18, 2022

That is what historians do! That is what preservationists do! Many a wise man has said that we cant see where were going if we have no awareness of where weve been. Human Nature remains the same. T

Irishmen and Irishwoman are a Boy’s Best Friend
January 11, 2022

How could I know that I would spend twenty of the happiest years of my life from age 69 to 89 at one of the most undesirable office locations in Brookline:), amidst a gang of Irishmen, two Irishwomen,

Life and Death
January 04, 2022

Does anybody have the ridiculous notion he or she will live forever? Yeah, me! Not really, but when Jordan Rich asked me on this podcast why I had waited to age eighty-five to have drawn an estate pla

THE MINISTER DISAPPEARS, THE SILVER SCREEN, AND OTHER FASCINATING CASES
December 14, 2021

Youve had a look at some terrific lawyers in the last podcast. Now take a listen to some of my own interesting, if not fascinating, cases. I got a call from my friend Horatio one morning asking if

LEGAL EAGLES
December 07, 2021

Do you want a look inside the otherwise opaque world of lawyers? Listen and you shall hear. Like when as a fledging lawyer I was assigned a criminal case to defend pro bono. I thought the defendant ha