Unlike our mothers, our generation of potential soap-opera audiences is probably watching reality TV or CSI Investigates. However, there is one drama to which I’m totally addicted, along with millions of college-educated, middle class Britons: The Archers.
In its infinite wisdom, the BBC launched what is now the longest-running soap opera in the [...]
It’s a subject that makes even my friends nervous. I’ve learned not to talk about it in polite company, never sure someone won’t react badly — and fairly sure most people whose circles I run in will lose respect for me, maybe even think I’m a bit nuts.
I want a gun. Actually, two guns: a [...]
To anyone who occasionally reads the paper, it’s common knowledge that we live in an aging society. Certainly plenty of politicians find it beneficial to remind us of the oncoming deluge of retiring Baby Boomers destined to “bankrupt Social Security.” The other side of the coin, however, is that more Americans are wealthier [...]
Close, but no clove: I’d always been taught that smoking was wrong. Not just bad for your health, as they told us in health class with the help of graphic images of clogged and cancerous lungs and people breathing through tubes in their throats. No, actually wrong, the kind of thing that could put you [...]
Friends, neighbors, readers. Others. I have news.
After seven months of the most delightful, satisfying blogging of my life (Blogito, ergo sum), I must take a hiatus. My current book project demands my full attention — nay, my very soul! I am on an unyielding deadline and have no more time for trifles like baring my [...]