That’s exactly the situation in my office building. And, since we occupy two floors, one just above the other, we have to take the elevator. What’s really funny (sad) is that the building and the company I work for touts the health benefits of walking up the stairs.  

I am hazarding to guess that I would rate high on the empathy scale. I can put myself in other people’s shoes. If it’s impossible to actually ever be in their shoes (can’t change my race or gender), I find a comparable situation I’ve had to compare it too. You can’t just deal in generalities here. If someone says it’s…

I grew up in LA and drove everywhere. Now I live in DC and don’t even have a car. I live in the burbs and walk each day to the Metro (a little over a mile) and most of the year walk back home from the Metro at the end of the day. I work out once a week (yes, I know I should do it more). I move around whenever I can.…

Why? Social Security payments stop going up when you reach 70. And, most 401(k)s (or the government rather) require you start taking out money from your retirement around that age (the feds want their taxes).

That would be all the farmers who used to cultivate the fields of what are now the burbs of your nation’s capital.

Really? You wouldn’t say that if you had cancer or AIDS. Don’t be so snarky with disease. Oh, and Я не русский бот!

The US tried that. Problem: in the winter, it doesn’t get light until 8 or 8:30 am. Bad for students walking to school.

Boo.

Boo.

Now, let the naysayers spout their semi-annual disdain for Daylight Saving Time.

Who folds socks? I wear one of two colors: black (mostly) or white. I just stuff them in the drawer and pick two of the same color every morning.

Interestingly, I do give her a few suggestions. When she doesn’t like any of them she’ll act like I’m wasting her time. I’m not at my wits end about this. This is within what I would call “millennial young adulthood” (although I didn’t trust my parents’ wisdom when I was that age, at least I knew not to call them to…

Tried that. She’s very good at deflection. She calls when something is wrong but rarely likes what we suggest. Fun times.

The First Amendment only covers your right to free speech from government intervention. Not a TV program.

Why you young whippersnappers! When I was in my 20s many years ago, I traveled throughout Europe. In Czechoslovakia (before the end of Communism), I needed to find the right bus to go to this small town to meet a penpal I’d been writing to since junior high. I spoke no Czech. But, I had been told that young people…

On another note: GO GREEN!

I’m a father of two college-age women. Parenting a young adult is the hardest phase of parenthood my wife and I have gone through. They want to be “adults” and they think they know what that means. But, they have no experiences to rely on. To them, being an adult means freedom. Yes, that’s so. But, it also means…

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I have never tried dehydrating chicken skin. In Yiddish chicken skin is called “grieven.” And, while it (and chicken fat, called “schmaltz” in Yiddish) can add a huge amount of flavor to dishes, it can subtract huge number of years of your life if you eat a lot of it. Just sayin’. ;-)

Having grown up in SoCal, but lived a very cold year in Minneapolis, I wonder what would happen if they combined the Californians’ accent with the Minnesota one, don’tcha know.

I grew up in L.A. when there were a lot less freeways. But, building them was nonstop. In the 1980s and 1990s, I did a photo documentary of the building of what was billed at the time as “the last freeway,” the 105. It runs from LAX to the 605. What was interesting about this massive project was that homeowners, the…