When Mom gave me a gift on her birthday
A word to the wise: never forget the woman who gave you every opportunity in life.
Musings from a day at the dentist’s
Care for your teeth today, or you’ll regret it for eternity.
Having a senior moment
A lesson to myself in rushing to judgment.
The time I bought half-interest in a newspaper from a man with wooden teeth
Chalk that up to the foolishness of youth. But even now, pushing 70, I’m still trying to catch soap bubbles before they pop.
A patriotic Vietnamese man yearns for clean air and democracy
A chance encounter over the Fourth of July weekend should make us wonder why some Americans seem ready to discard freedoms that rest of world envies.
When top book editors said fiction wasn’t my forte
I took this to heart and spent 30 years practicing nonfiction.
Have I learned enough to make stuff up convincingly?
Has it really been 50 years since high school?
A chatty and informal reminiscence shared at a 50th reunion.
If you figure out how to build an H-bomb, can the government declare it a secret?
U.S. law said the basic principle behind the bomb were “born secret” and could not be disclosed under any circumstances. A student newspaper challenged that.