There are many well documents differences between men and women. There is one, however, that I haven't read much about. It has to do ...

The following speech, I Have A Dream, was delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. ...

In talking to a few friends around my age, the subject turned to possessions, specifically our possessions. Having broken through the glass ceiling of ...

The other day I was driving to the mall. In order to get there I had to drive through a less desirable ...

The ending of any year seems to require some kind of list ...

One of the things I tend to do when a birthday or anniversary or New Year's Day rolls around is look back and ...

Christmas might seem to be a strange time of talk about a Nero Wolfe novel by the author Rex Stout. However, the murder ...

It is the time for the most merry and solemn of holidays - Christmas. It is a day which celebrates the birth of Jesus ...

I recently published the famous letter and response – Yes, Virginia – There Is A Santa ...

If only I were as wise and as great a writer as Mr. Church. This is a perfect answer to a question; a ...

I decided that rather go into the shop in Winter Park with my wife who wanted to ...

There are many ways by which you can define youth. It might be age, maturity or some other characteristic. There is one ...

I doubt there is any person over 50 who has not read Dear Abby or Ann Landers advice columns at one time ...

Some time ago, the Daytona Beach News-Journal had a page one, above the fold story about 5 women who served in ...

Happy birthday, Mom (aka Jennie – thanks to Ellis Island, aka Yolan):  Nov. 17, 1912 – Jan.21, 2001

I thoroughly enjoy many comics. In addition to my daily ration in the local newspaper, I also follow a few more on the internet. ...

There are a lot of ‘fifty’ things we encounter in life. The Kennedy half dollar is fifty cents, there are 50 states, ...

I have been asked what the theme of my musings is. Writers typically have a special interest in, an expertise in some special ...

I guess when it comes to talking about sex (as opposed to sexually talking while actively engaged), we each have our set of guidelines ...

I hadn’t walked the beach all summer. That was due in part because of the summer heat  and part because of a health issue ...

Halloween is here so it seems appropriate to publish a very short Halloween story.

(Readers’ note:  The following is not a sunshine and flowers musing.)  There are so many ways of dying. There is a multitude of illnesses ...

If you ask me what my favorite movie is, I would answer without a moment's hesitation - Casablanca. It almost always is ranked near ...

Listening to a bird singing his song

  Looking at a woman all alone.

Verbal abuse, physical abuse or death by shooting. - take your pick. They are the few choices so many women who are in ...

I often write about memories, I guess, because I have come to learn they loom large in later life. The good ones certainly ...

They aren’t worthy of a musing, but I had to do something with them – ...

I think you who are older will understand the following musing. Those of you who are younger should consider this a heads up ...

In a musing I published a few years ago, I wrote about returning to my home town to attend my ...

It's difficult to forget just how old I am. As if those annual reminders called birthdays aren't enough, every time I turn ...

It is 1 PM on Tuesday, September 20^th, 2011. A check of some of the headlines on Yahoo news reveals the following:

I can't speak for others on this matter. And perhaps in writing about it, I am revealing some very personal information about ...

Our country’s second day of Infamy occurred on September 11^th, 2001. The first one, so labeled by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, occurred on December ...

Someone wrote to say she became a caregiver during the final stages of a friend's life. That friend of my friend had a terminal brain tumor. My friend ...

It was time for another of my bagel fixes. When I want a bagel I have ...

(Watch out for the question at the end; it can be a toughie.)

I had a reading of my book, Late Night Musings, and a signing at a local adult community ...

The other evening we had a few friends over for dinner. Like me, they passed age 65 a few years ago, which means they ...

There are many things in life that are difficult to do. Probably one of the most difficult is to apologize. Be it ...

Our genes, coupled with evolution, are wonderful things. Over the centuries they have prepared us for so much and protected us from so much. Yet even they ...

Much has been written of time travel, mostly in science fiction. A few scientists have written about the possibility of traveling in time, but it isn't even ...

I recently read a blog wherein the author listed several quotes by Will Rogers (if you don’t know who he is, check Wikipedia) ...

If there is one topic that has had the most written about, it probably is love. It is one of the strongest emotions (along with hate) that ...