Fifteen years in the future, my grandson will be driving a car, or whatever passes for an automobile in 2039. Maybe I’ll be taking a new set of knees or hips for a test-drive. But why jump ahead? Stay in the present. That’s something that 1-year-olds and 62-year-olds might do equally well.
Read MoreMike and Me: Forever Young
My life with Mike Berry was pleasantly intense, drenched as it was in our salad days as the college-boy Mambo Kings of Memphis State University. The wit flowed like the taps of Lowenbrau Dark at our favorite campus dive, Garibaldi’s.
Short on cash but long on hair, we were drawn together by the post-Watergate-era romance of journalism. We plied our craft in the workshop that was the school newspaper, although Mike was always the more seasoned practitioner among us.
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A Rest Stop Between Past and Future
An anniversary trip to Galveston was a vintage time-travel get-away, complete with fine dining splurges and seascape cocktails shaken and stirred by strong, cool ocean breezes.
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A Beauty-and-the-Beast ending to this day.
Sunsets and Satellites
I turned my eyes and my camera to the evening skies, finding solace or maybe escape in sunsets and satellites.
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