Mornings with the “Regulars” Since I stopped going to the gym last March, I walk six mornings a week in Bay Park in East Rockaway on Long Island. Like the gym, the park has a group of regulars. One of them is Barry, a slight man from Missouri who walks…

While many of us are hoping for a change in tone from the White House in 2021, let’s face it — there probably won’t be any change at all in our quotidian* existence, especially for those of us in our 80s. In my case that means: — I will go…

Dear President Donald J. Trump, Kayleigh McEnany contacted Spinning Our Wheels — “D.C.’s Pedal Palace Since 1977” — about outfitting you with a bicycle and necessary gear after seeing Joe and Jill Biden riding their bikes in Delaware recently. We would be honored to take on this assignment, but before…

THE QUESTIONS TRUMP WANTED STAHL TO ASK Mudville News — “All Mud, All the Time” — has learned that aides to Donald Trump handed “60 Minutes” producers a suggested list of a dozen questions they wanted Lesley Stahl to ask the president. 1. Hello, Mr. President. You are looking so…

Those of us who do a little writing are starved for feedback, and welcome it even when it’s a long time in coming. Forty-four years ago the Los Angeles Times printed a piece I wrote about Halloween. The feedback came a few days ago. First the essay, which carried the…

I take nine pills at breakfast and five pills after my afternoon nap. Or is it the other way around? Newsday prints lists of celebrities’ birthdays, and most mornings I haven’t heard of half of them. There are more noises in my pants than there used to be, especially after…

Email August 28 to White House Dear President Trump, More, more, more! What a wonderful use of the South Lawn, all those amazing unmasked Caucasians crammed together to applaud and cheer the wisdom and decency you have brought to our country. And the Trump-Pence signs, made me so proud. …

Happy Birthday to Dwight McCoy who would have been 77 today. Dear Dwight, You wouldn’t recognize your country today. “Pussy” is now a word used on the front page of The New York Times. Not in the teasing sense of telling a buddy, “You’re a pussy.” …

(This was first published on the website of the Great South Bay Magazine.) The dentist I’ve seen for more than 30 years retired recently, and I’m about to make my first visit to the guy he shared an office with. …