Archives from 2014

I think about this a lot around this time of year—Princess and Christmas in 1969.

Tags: Opinion, family, dogs, holidays, Christmas

I think the older you get, the more you put things in proper prospective, and today, in late October, I’m thinking about my life and also the people I love who have been in it.

Tags: Opinion, family, Living Out Loud, Thanksgiving, Larry Gross

Despite the fact that I’m getting older, I still have a pretty good memory. One day last month when walking home from the corner of happy and healthy — that’s the Walgreens in Covington, Ky. — I heard someone say, “Hello, Larry.”

Tags: Opinion

Keeping up with the Kardashians isn’t about reality. It’s pureplastic, pure phony baloney. It’s rich people who have done nothing to deservethat wealth and status and who think they have real problems and issues

Tags: Opinion, culture, reality TV, Kardashians

I decided to brave that slope with my quad cane and my old, rickety folding utility cart. I told myself Icould handle this just fine. I wastelling myself a lie.

Tags: Opinion, Covington

See thispaper mache pig? My twin brother made this back in highschool. My mother was the guardian of it until she died in 2000. Now, I have it.

Tags: Opinion, Vevay, Indiana, bullying

The first Peanutstelevision special, A Charlie BrownChristmas, had been on TV the previous Christmas and that made me even moreof a fan of the strip. I couldn’t get enough of Charlie Brown and company.

Tags: Opinion, Living Out Loud, The Gospel According to Peanuts

There’spretty good pest control in the building where I live in Covington. I seldomever see a bug, but I did the other day — a bug hanging out in my kitchen.

Tags: Opinion, Living Out Loud, Covington

My phone rang fairly late one evening during the summer of 2000. I was in bed, but my son was still up. On the phone was a nurse from the nursing home in Vevay, Indiana. My mother was staying there recuperating from knee surgery — her left knee. She had

Tags: Opinion, mother, preacher, diabetes, neuropathy

I’vealways tried to be cordial to her, especially when I first moved into the building,but Beverly and I have never talked. In fact, she’s made it quite clear shedoesn’t like me.

Tags: Opinion, Living Out Loud

OnSeptember 22, 2013, around seven o’clock in the morning, I smoked my last PallMall cigarette. It was the last one in my pack and the last one I ever intendedto inhale and exhale. I was going to give up tobacco for good.

Tags: Opinion, smoking, vaping, Pall Mall