Why am I so captivated by the beach?  Sure, you could give balmy beach answers, waxing warmly about sand and summer fun.  Instead, I think of stories of my life, love and lessons learned at water’s edge…my life’s path has literally been formed by sand castles.  I’ve spent a total of years with family on [...]

A folklorist, a cartoonist, a psychologist, a lawyer, a columnist, and an icon of American letters walk into a bar…what happens next is unclear.  I know it’s not funny, but then flatulence has amused humankind form the beginning.  And every manner of man has walked into a whorehouse, for that category of joke. One of [...]