In my early teens, if my dad said, “Mark, get your coat on; we need to change the oil in the car,” I was as happy as if he’d said he would buy me a puppy.

Recently, I went to a 98th birthday party for my dear friend George Stanley.

Sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly, my body is deteriorating at such a rate it’s nerve-wracking.

So, is the way most people dress now good or bad? I believe it’s a bad thing.

Lectures on atrocities have replaced going to the movies and dinner.

The statistics show that exercise helps in more ways than you could imagine. 

These days, every place you call, you hear, “Please listen carefully because we have recently changed our prompts.”

I love fruits and vegetables, but the problem is that the produce section is always a crapshoot.

As we unknowingly aged, these chairs never seemed to grow older — just stronger and more important. They were timeless.

Even if you don’t read most of them, owning books is still important. To me, a home without books is like a home without air.