Jul 3, 2013 | REFLECTIONS
By Edward H. Garcia When I was a kid, there were people around–not necessarily in my family–who could fix every machine they owned. No doubt that had been truer in earlier generations, but even in, say, 1950, most machines were fixable. When one broke...
Apr 3, 2013 | REFLECTIONS
By Edward H. Garcia These nice spring days, my wife and I often go back to the thicket near our house before supper for an hour or so of clearing. Our place is thick with oaks, pines, sassafras, cedars, the occasional hickory and maple and lots and lots of vines. We...
Mar 3, 2013 | REFLECTIONS
By Edward H. Garcia Demographers tell us that old folks are the fastest growing segment of the population, so if you don’t have one of your own now, you probably will in the next few years. If you haven’t been around old people or have avoided them because they creep...
Dec 3, 2012 | REFLECTIONS
By Edward H. Garcia I’ve recently turned 70, so naturally I’m concerned with memory problems. I find that names and abstract nouns have started dropping out of my brain at an alarming rate. I am telling my wife about the pilot for a tv show I’ve seen. I want to tell...
Nov 3, 2012 | REFLECTIONS
By Edward H. Garcia I know it’s not necessary, but is there really anything wrong with looking at the tube of toothpaste you’re squeezing in the morning and thinking, “Someday — and it could be any da — I will squeeze a toothpaste tube for the last time”?...
Jun 3, 2012 | REFLECTIONS
By Edward H. Garcia You get to my age and you start worrying about decrepitude. That’s not the same as getting older—which is inevitable, and it’s not the same as looking older, which in spite of Ginger Roger’s best efforts, is also inevitable. But I’m hoping that...
