I drank the frothy, evil tasting brown liquid. In about a 1/2 hour I started to throw up uncontrollably. Then I farted. I hoped the noise of me throwing up covered the noise of the farts. The above is a quote from Robin Quivers, Howard Stern’s long-time sidekick on his…

Late-Life Adventures in Sex & Romance I heard her being interviewed on NPR by Linda Wertheimer many years ago. The interview was exceedingly interesting as many of Linda’s are. But this was even more so because of the obvious intelligence and honesty of the guest. “Since my divorce more than…

I don’t need ’em, I say!! You heard me right! Some people think I don’t hear as well as I used to. Not GF Judy. We shout back and forth, hearing each other perfectly fine. My father never wore hearing aids and his father before him never wore hearing aids…

All of a sudden, I saw a hand come over my shoulder and try to take my letters. I held on tight. I’ve always had a great respect for the US Mail Service. My real estate business depended on it for tenants to send in monthly rents (never did sign…

Every month we’d mine financial gold giving investment seminars in some of the thousands of retirement villages in the New York metropolitan area. He was the most successful investment advisor in the firm in years past. He was retired but nobody mentioned that to him when he came into the…

Everybody in the diner was eating the same thing for breakfast and it wasn’t what you’d expect. Judy and I were hoping to have a quick breakfast before starting on the last leg of our journey to encamp at Willoughby Lake, Vermont for the remainder of the summer. We had…

Powerhouse ABC Radio was doing an on air fund raiser for New York’s Fresh Air Fund. They had a unique way of rewarding the individuals who donated. There’s a wonderful limited series on HBO Max “The Last Movie Stars”. It’s very well done and features the very unconventional, passionate, romantic…

The human genus displays its drive to carry on the current species in the strangest ways in the most unlikely places. For a month or two every summer I revisit my college days by washing my clothes at a laundromat. Vermont’s strict environmental laws prohibit me from having a washer/dryer…

Let’s face it: someone else’s problem may be the engine that drives your next investment that makes you rich. “I must confess Brian, I've made more money taking advantage of people’s problems than I ever have teaching how to solve them.” I was having lunch with James Lomas * a…