Yesterday I listened one of my favorite podcasts — Freakonomics Radio — and heard an interview with Kevin Kelly, one of the co-founders of Wired magazine. One of Kelly’s blog posts, “68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice,” had gone viral. He had posted it on the occasion of his birthday and intended it as a gift to young people in the form of lessons learned over his 68 years. It’s easy to see why the list has proven so popular . . .
My Father’s Obituary
I’m going to cheat today and post something I wrote before I started this blog: my father’s obituary. He died a bit more than a month ago. I have two friends who I consider to be exceptionally good writers. One of them, my wife’s brother-in-law Tom, wrote obituaries for both his parents (and even wrote an entire book about their lives together), so I asked him to send me his father’s obituary so I could use it as a model. (Thank you, Tom.) This was the result . . .
The First Post
It’s been about 10 weeks since the Covid-19 pandemic closed down the option of doing much of anything that involves physically mingling with other people outside the home. As a retired man with no kids and no hobbies, that has distilled my daily life down to just a handful of activities . . . After a certain amount of soul-searching, I’ve decided to spend some time each day writing . . .