Am I looking for the perfect dog or the perfect woman? When it comes to picking domestic partners, my track record isn’t spectacular.  Ex #1 My first wife was, and remains, a lovely woman.  That we grew in opposite directions was, perhaps, the fault of no one. Though I carried a lot of guilt around with me for nearly two decades over the manner in which we...

Can 6 Words Sum Up Your Life? For my birthday a few days ago, I received a copy of the neat little volume, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs from Writers Famous and Obscure. It’s a collection of 1,000 six-word memoirs from writers attempting to summarize their life experience in six words. The introduction thinly lays claim to Hemingway being the...