It's a repeating theme in my head: I'm running out of time . No, not imminently (that I know of), but I'm 56 years old. ...

As I've been heard to say: "As you get older, don't eat like a six-year-old and don't drink like a college student." ...

 "Adult humans are really bad about sticking with something that is good for them, but that they aren't great at. Doing something d...

"This was us all on the planet lamenting the loss of a man who was a master human being. And the density of that loss is of great weigh...

Honestly, it's a little weird. I've been in the same job for 29 years, and I'm leaving in two months. Thanks to a retirement...

In June 2010, I quit the standard-issue gym where I'd been keeping myself in okay shape, and I showed up at 7 a.m. at a one-car garage i...

"Oh, stop!" were the first words out of David Yow's mouth last night in Philadelphia as his band, the Jesus Lizard, took the s...

The Queen of Soul had been ill for quite a while, and I don't feel particularly well-qualified to wax poetic on her staggering value to ...

I'm not much on heroes. They invariably disappoint me. But, at least for the ten-ish years that I "knew" him from his boo...

Five years ago today, my dad passed away. I miss him sometimes, but, as I documented here , the last few years of his life were really rough...