A Life Lived Backwards: One Man's Life

A Life Lived Backwards: One Man's Life


Latest Episodes

A Tempestuous Parent and Other Family
September 30, 2021

Lets start with my mother, Doris, an incredible woman who survived a week into her 97th year, bridging the Edwardian era, the Twenty First Century, and everything in between, matching each era with h

Braves Field, Jackie Robinson, and WWII German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
September 23, 2021

Alas, Braves Field no longer exists. It disappeared not long after the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1952. But it was my field of dreams in the forties! They let kids in for free with their dads

What is Jewish Life like in Brookline, Massachusetts?
September 16, 2021

Have you ever wondered how Jewish folks get to be that way, whatever way you surmise that may be? A good place to start is heavily Jewish Brookline, MA, my hometown where I was Bar Mitzvahd at age 13

Air Force Stories
September 09, 2021

Not many of you folks can remember the Korean War during which I served as an ROTC officer in the Air Force from 1952 to 1954 stateside in Washington D. C. during the waning days of Harry Trumans pre

Talking with Dogs
September 02, 2021

I call my wife Lois a dog whisperer. She whispered to all of them, loved them all, and was loyal beyond belief to every one, even the terrible tempered, Wammy, our first dog long ago, misnamed after

Voices of Brookline
August 26, 2021

Voices of Brookline is the title of my first book, which came out in 2005, Brooklines tercentenary, when I was seventy-four. I never thought I would write a book, let alone one about this famous to

Earlier Relationships
August 19, 2021

This podcast is entitled Earlier Relationships, but as you will discover as we get to know each other better, I tend to digress because so many stories are bursting out of me wanting to be heard. He

What I Mean By, “Living My Life Backwards.”
August 12, 2021

How could I know the best part of my life would begin at age seventy? That then I would become an interviewer, an author, a story teller, sort of a personality, and for the first time ever become so i

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