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The Middle-Age Guide to Growing Up: Multitasking!

December 17, 2015

It was the night before the federal election. I’m a pollster. That’s like Christmas Eve, only it comes once every ...

The Middle-Age Guide to Growing Up: A Four Hour Cruise

November 20, 2015

It was supposed to be a simple four hour cruise, Niagara-On-The-Lake to Toronto, a straight line, 27 nautical miles, ...

The Middle-Age Guide to Growing Up: Motorhead

October 14, 2015

I haven’t owned that many cars in my life, until recently, when I’ve been using them up at a rate of about one a ...

The Middle-Aged Guide to Growing Up: Taxi From Hell

September 14, 2015

This is one of my Mexico stories. I was living in Cuernavaca, a pleasant resort town south of the volcanoes that ring ...

The Middle-Age Guide to Growing Up: Noblesse Obliged

August 14, 2015

I ruled a small Barony on the Welsh marches at one time. I’ll tell you how it came about. Late in 2001, disgusted ...

The Middle-Aged Guide to Growing Up: What’s Cooking?

July 16, 2015

It's not that I can’t cook, I can, very well by comparison with some men my age, but I’m lazy. If it involves ...

The Middle-Aged Guide to Growing Up: Taxi From Hell

May 23, 2015

This is one of my Mexico stories. I was living in Cuernavaca, a pleasant resort town south of the volcanoes that ...

The Middle-Age Guide to Growing Up: First World Problems

April 8, 2015

I can’t get wifi on my yacht. That was the first time I realized I had first world problems. It’s not really a ...

The Middle-Aged Guide to Growing Up: Turning Over The Odometer

March 12, 2015

This year and the one that passed everyone I know turned 60. I remember the year everybody got married, 1985, and ...

The Middle-Aged Guide to Growing Up: Hot Wheels For Christmas

February 11, 2015

I go through cars the way most people go through gym shoes; another one every year, usually around Christmas. Last ...