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Old Age Is Coming At A Really Bad Time

by Curt Kovener My late grandmother often told me “Getting old isn’t for sissies.” Of course I was young and wasn’t ready to pay attention. But these last 10 years or so, my Grandma has really gotten wise even though she passed in the 1980’s. But here is more wisdom I...

Life Lessons Learned From A Hickory Nut

by Curt Kovener November rains always bring cold. With recent and predicted rains bringing chills to my bones, I opted to spend time inside in the quiet of the wilderness retreat. I have been trying to collect some of those large hickory nuts with thin hulls and thin...

Is Stupidity A Dominant Gene?

Several weeks ago the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed column entitled “You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity.” The author, Lance Morrow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote a humorous yet thought-provoking analysis of America’s seeming fascination...

How’s Come Is It?

by Curt Kovener When I was in college (way back in that other millennium) there was an above average intelligent class member who would raise her hand to ask a question prefaced with “How’s Come Is it…” followed by her question. Professor Hart, a patient educator, who...

A Sobering Time For Graying Boomers

by Curt Kovener (This is an updated encore column from the Curt Comments archives.) When Elvis died it shocked me. Gone at age 42 a bloated poster child of what poor nutrition, drugs, and an opulent lifestyle can result. Now that was more than 40 years —a...

Fall Is The Times For Molasses

by Curt Kovener I have written on several occasions of my enjoyment of the outdoor life in the wilderness. And Becky and Emma the Great Pyrenees share that interest in the outdoors. Thanks to Emma’s late afternoon walkabouts, they have has taken up hunting… mole...