A popular sitcom of the sixties, “Get Smart,” featured Don Adams as Control Agent 86, whose responsibility was to […]
Month: April 2004
‘Keen-ager’: a term for those at least 65
Is there any way to live decades and decades without getting old? I went to bed just before midnight […]
Las Vegas remains Spanglish bastion
A guest at a local hotel was irate the morning after checking in. “What kind of place are you running […]
‘Thrills,’ ice cream orgy highlighted childhood
A regular reader of Work of Art, who turns out to have been an across-the-street neighbor in my childhood, asked […]
Levity: it’s seriously not a joking matter
In preparation for a military inspection during my years in the National Guard (in New Mexico, unlike Alabama, they […]