Tag: 1976

What Can I Do?

I graduated from high school in 1976. Look, I’ve already told you I’m a senior citizen. We were just two years out from Nixon’s resignation, and a year out from the fall of Saigon. You want to talk about turbulent times. I can tell you about turbulent times. Also, get off my lawn. I digress. …

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Monday Mourning

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. English author and poet Dorothy L. Sayers was born on this day in 1893 (died 1957). With all due respect to Ms. Sayers, getting older isn’t for sissies. Or maybe that’s what she was …

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