I saw an igloo on the beach, this morning.  No Eskimos in sight.  No blue glacier in the distance  … just an inflatable igloo with two people inside who were wearing very little and quietly turning pages.  No, I wasn’t staring at them … I was merely beholding.  (Much better.) And not far away from this igloo were a woman and child hauling over-sized sea-worthy noodles across the sand.  And two Japanese tourists were waist-high in the low tide giggling noisily while dousing each other with what certainly looked like wet cannons.  And off in the background, an ambitious fellow...

When Robin Williams stepped away, he left so many gifts behind for us.  Just look around — they’re all here on demand.   Pre-owned,  you might say.  We loved his performances the first time  — and they’re still here for us to pass around freely. Eyebrows inch up when people name their favorite Robin Williams hits … Mrs. Doubtfire, Good Will Hunting, Awakenings, Good Morning, Vietnam… and I, too, stake out my favorite sacred ground.  When Robin Williams played Armand Goldman and juggled and stretched his love how many different directions, he jumped over the...

In case you haven’t guessed yet — I’m plagued by Erratic Patience Deficiency.  EPD was first recognized by the medical profession in 1952.  Few people bring it up casually. My assistant, Cecile Simian, did a little looking around for me and believes that my case of  EPD made its way into all the medical textbooks and has been known to show up on surprise quizzes.  During the maturation of the pre-frontal cortex, when the brain of an almost 25 year old is spinning at 46 rotations per second, the odds of acquiring Pre-Adult EPD are remarkably high. And that’s what happened to...