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- Tom Lashnits
I read an article in The New Yorker called Why We Can’t Tell the Truth About Aging by Arthur Krystal. The writer is a 71-year-old New York culture critic, who seems to want to put the worst face on aging that he possibly can.…
Author: Tom Lashnits
Tom Lashnits spent 40 years in New York book and magazine publishing before retiring to Bucks County, PA, in 2017. He now volunteers in the school system, produces the baby boomer blog Sightings Over Sixty . . . and is just starting to chase after grandchildren.
- Tom Lashnits
Harland David Sanders was born on a farm in Indiana. His father died when he was a child, and his mother went to work in a cannery, so the young boy helped out with the farm and took care of his two younger siblings, learning how to prepare food, ho…
- Tom Lashnits
Steve McQueen once appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated with his motorcycle. He was an ex-con and former Marine. And he had three wives. The first was a Filipino actress related to pop singer Enrique Iglesias. His second wife was vote…
- Tom Lashnits
Recently, my wife and I vacationed in Raleigh where we spent an afternoon at the North Carolina Museum of Art. It’s quite an impressive museum with works by Andrew Wyeth, Georgia O’Keeffe, Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore and other…
- Tom Lashnits
“What I don’t like about books and movies set during World War II,” my wife said to me the other day, “is that they remind you how bad things can get.” We were watching a PBS Masterpiece Theater series called T…
- Tom Lashnits
Yogi Berra’s father, Pietro, immigrated from Italy, arriving on Ellis Island in October 1909. He made his way to St. Louis where he settled on The Hill, the Italian section of the city. His wife came over later with their two sons, and t…
- Tom Lashnits
I’m always looking for the silver lining, so the other day when I was outside shoveling the walkway and freezing my butt off, the thought came to me that I’d read somewhere recently that people who live in cold climates live long…
- Tom Lashnits
I got back from vacation to face reality. I had a dentist appointment. When I was growing up, my family always went to Dr. Murphy, who had a dental office in his home only a few blocks from our house. Dr. Murphy was old school. I remember, when I wa…
