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45th Birthday Post: This year it’s time to step up onto my latest soap box: Sometimes you’re lucky to get older… These were Dan’s words, not mine, and I’ve reused them in several contexts by now, but wise words bear repeating, doncha think? Part 1: 45 and Still Aliveku: Another year here Forty-five and still alive With non-plastic face Part 2: I hear the face of LA is an unmovable sight these days. At least that’s what friends and ads the Instaworld commercials communicate to me. My face move...

I need to listen to more music. I do. I’m not talking about background noise that sounds pretty–notes arranged in a certain way to accompany my cereal. I mean listen as a stand-alone activity worthy of its own stand-alone moment. I’ll repeat if for the ones with AirPods in their ears (three fingers pointing back at me): listening to music is an activity. Full stop in the UK; period for those in North America (Canadian friends, you can inform me of your preference; Austra...

I’m not a math star, but 4 times 3 is 12 3 times 4 equals 12 Facts in 5-7-5 form don’t make reality softer to see… or the past fade from 20/20.   Rearview mirrors making things appear closer. Sometimes so close you can almost… But almost isn’t actual.   As my 8th grade history teacher repeatedly said— the one who survived war in Vietnam and probably more; the one who cracked stomach-turning jokes about spitting into canned peas when he worked in a factory assembly line (a job none o...