First Person
Cometh the blue people
Some old TV hair color commercial came with the line, "Only your hairdresser knows for sure." I was not much more [...]
Go to it, death-proofers
Donald Trump is out, or nearly. Happy now? I am: I hated his hair color choices. But here's a word to [...]
Love in vain?
I always liked Valentine's Day. I liked it even though I knew it was a marketing gimmick cooked up to sell [...]
Never an empty bed
My father flew B-17 bombers over occupied Europe in World War II. The planes, which took off from primitive airfields mostly [...]
The Darth Vader syndrome
My friend Mary is in a funk. She thinks the world is coming to an end because of COVID-19. She posts [...]
Good-bye Analog Road
It's no surprise to me that the coronavirus is about to make the virtual side of digital life into the way [...]
ERs where missile were
I have done a lot of thinking lately. Usually I lack the free time. Now free time is all time. My [...]
Shameless sheep
The expression "beware a wolf in sheep's clothing" goes back millennia. The ancient Greek slave and storyteller Aesop probably used it [...]
Talking sense to judgment
An elite British boarding school that costs your parents £40,00 a year is too often posh in name only. The one [...]
Embodying a dream
How I came to be a London escort is much ado about a farm. Not a comfortably conventional opening gambit for [...]
The man who wasn’t there
Emmanuel Mbasha was a proud member of the Chagga tribe and came from the Machame district of Tanzania, at the foot [...]