Archive for October, 2010

I first met Charlie, the owner and barkeep of that wonderful roadside tavern in the Adirondack mountains of New York State when he was in his fifties. I saw him for the last time in the Autumn when he was in his seventies, about to close the tavern up for the year for the last [...]

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but social media is neither. Just a bunch of electrons excited by fingers on plastic keys. Oh, don’t get me wrong here. It’s truly amazing how many folks we can contact with it. It’s just that I’m old enough to have lived a great [...]