06/24/2008 (Aging, Changing times, Uncategorized)
Has your reading changed since spending 10 years with the Web? Mine has. Age? Or the Age of Google? Oddly, I read more books now than I have in the past few years. Giving up cable TV helps. But I admit that long, dense reads are a tougher go. In any event, the article below [...]
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03/31/2008 (Aging, Reflections on living, Social commentary)
In the April 7 issue of The New Yorker, Michael Kinsley reflects on aging, both his own and that of his generation. I’ve excerpted a small piece below.
We are born thinking that we’ll live forever. Then death becomes an intermittent reality, as grandparents and parents die, and tragedy of some kind removes one or two [...]
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