That's the Biblical equation of a full life and roughly translates as 70 years. I'm pretty close to that now and if the outcome of tomorrow's physical exam is anything resembling what my imagination is preparing me for, it could mean everything that I know and love coming to an end very quickly. This comes weeks after listening to stories about the ( Read more... )

Nanette Fabray filled a very big spotlight role when she took over from Imogene Coca as Sid Caesar's distaff sidekick in the program that succeeded the original "Show of Shows" in the mid-1950s. Called, "Caesar's Hour", it sought to rekindle the magic of live, skit comedy that was television's life blood until the arrival of videotape extinguished ( Read more... )

Ty Hardin came on the scene rather suddenly in the late 1950s as part of a tag team of westerns produced for television by Warner Brothers, the venerable Hollywood movie studio. In what ultimately became a very valuable, if somewhat improbable, profit center in the early days of the small screen, they single-handedly kept ABC afloat against the ( Read more... )

Well, it couldn't have come at a better time. I have been gloomy and morbid ever since the night she died, busily processing every bit of data from those last scary days in Room 251. I wasn't really done letting go of them until I had recorded every saline solution, every steroid packet ("to give her strength") every plastic bag hanging from her ( Read more... )

I didn't know what to expect as I got off the elevator at the nursing home last Thursday. Mom had withdrawn completely into her childhood the last time I visited and had no recollection of who I was. It was pretty frightening to hear her calling out to her mother to make me stop bothering her ( Read more... )

It was two days away from Valentine's Day and despite the languishing state of my love life I had no hard feelings about it.  My weekly LGBTQ support group postponed its phone conference for the week.  Three of the five of us are in relationships. Sis was the only person I've gotten a card from. My hopes spiked upwards when only a few people in ( Read more... )