Ask any pundit and he'll tell you that Rudolph W. Giuliani did poorly in Florida because he opted out of the first four contests, banking on a strong showing in the Sunshine state to propel him to victory. Well, it seems that Rudy rolled the dice and lost. And the momentum passed to John McCain. But the real reason for Giuliani's loss is that prostate [...]
"THE LITTLE OLD LADY IN LAVENDER SILK" By Dorothy Parker I was seventy-seven, come August, I shall shortly be losing my bloom . . . When you come to this time of abatement, To this passing from Summer to Fall, It is manners to issue a statement As to what you got out of it [...]
I recently took a cruise down the Mississippi River on an old-fashioned steamboat, and it made me want to revisit the great African-American poet Langston Hughes' best-known poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (that's what inspired this title.) But my personal favorite Hughes poem is "Mother to Son", which I think of whenever I feel [...]
I read a message yesterday posted by a woman who is not in good health herself but is caring for her husband, who is 83 and has end-stage PC. Her devotion reminded me of a beautiful poem, "When You Are Old", by the Irish poet, W.B. Yeats. You might say this poem celebrates "mature love". [...]
I don't read much highbrow lit, but DH does. Sunday, he showed me a review of a new novel by Philip Roth that was in the NYT, because he said it had to do with PC. So I had a look, because rarely do I see prostate cancer take center stage in art. I was [...]