About five years ago, I was among several men waiting in a conference room for a meeting to begin. First, the conversation was a little work. Then it was a little football. It finally settled on talk of wives. You know, they’re balls and chains. They whine. They nag. Nothing’s ever good enough for them. … Read more
Back when I spent a lot of time playing and studying chess, I tried to analyze, as deeply as I could, at least one famous grandmaster game per week. I would try to understand what each side was thinking; what his/her plan was. Though I would frequently miss subtle connections between something in the opening … Read more
(Warning: This post contains explicit sexual content.) Lea and I attended a performance of Rock of Ages last year at the Von Braun Center. It was well attended by our demographic of Generation X, but also by many considerably older people. I presumed they were vested in the Broadway Theater League in some way or … Read more