“Frightening beyond belief. I have no words.” —Resident of Sendai, Japan, victim of the tsunami Most of us who saw the telecasts of the tsunami’s destruction in Japan could understand that man’s reaction to the horror of the cataclysmic event. Your jaw drops. Your eyes widen. You have no words. The devastation in Japan was …
It’s a line from the Eagles 1975 classic hit, Tequila Sunrise: “The days go by.” And they do. Whether you like it or not, whether you waiting for (or enduring) a tequila sunrise on a beach in Acapulco, or working in a coal mine in eastern Kentucky, or trading stocks on Wall Street, or writing …
“They tried to make me go to rehab but I said ‘no, no, no’” —Amy Winehoue, Rehab (2007) She sat in my office, a mother worn out from caring, emotionally drained, sharing her pain of a son who had been in and out, in and out of drug rehab. Now he had left rehab again. …
“People are work, brother. A lot of work. Too much work.” So said Detective Frank Keller (Al Pacino) a New York City detective in the 1989 movie Sea of Love. Keller had just solved an emotionally draining, life threatening, relationship changing investigation of a serial killer. In the movie, Keller falls in love with Helen …
Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, Ain’t got time to take a fast train. Lonely days are gone, I’m a-goin’ home, ‘Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter. —“The Letter,” The Box Tops, 1967 My heart beat faster as I slowly opened the mail box. Was it there? Did she write? Three weeks of …