Puffin’s Place

Well, last night’s debate finally set in high relief most of the reasons Hillary Clinton makes my teeth itch. She is very much like a little girl at the outskirts of a marble game, jumping up and down as the guys shoot and chatter. She wants in and is anxious to let everyone know that [...]

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Well, I have been promising myself to get away from politics for a minute and deal with another current passion: what is turning out to be the enormous fun I am having in this aging business. And I am curious if others around my age—70 at the moment—are having the fun I am. It feels [...]

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Well, Hillary Clinton is working hard to manifest every unpleasant cliche about women: she is mercurial–proud to be next to Obama one moment and excoriating him the next. She is shrill, shaking her finger like an over-wrought school marm. She appears to suffer from penis envy–inviting him behind the barn in Ohio to have a [...]

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Does anyone know what blend of arrogance, egotism, and malevolence had decided Ralph Nader to again run for president? The last time he did it, we got GWB, a couple of wars, an acceleration of Bill Clinton’s extraordinary rendition, a near recession, an attorney general who assured us that the US Constitution did not confer [...]

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I also host a private community for the caregivers of the Alzheimer’s affected and want to invite anyone out there who is a CG or affected with an interest in support to email me and come join us. The site is private so you need not fear the curious or the student writing a paper [...]

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I am so very weary of having people tell me that if Hillary were a man, no one would object to her shrillness, her aura of being owed the presidency, her schizoid lurches from hard-working policy maven to finger-pointing fishwife. Solutions, indeed. The current approach of her campaign is to raise anti-intellectualism to the height [...]

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Kierkegaard once said, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Seems like an appropriate theme line for a blog by a person over 70 who has figured some things out, is frustrated and furious at the political situation in the U.S., and no longer has to worry about being either [...]

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