The knee-jerk reaction to the 5 Iranian Women’s Soccer players who were granted Australian asylum is that they would be persecuted for not singing the Iranian National Anthem.I think with more nuance.Like maybe the song just sucks.These women must be enlightened by Iranian standards at least. Did you know Iranian women have enjoyed voting rights since 1963?I did not know t...

 We’ll soon be hearing about lots of Olympians competing with guts and heart. If I had my way, there’d be an Olympics where the guts and hearts, etc. were the actual competitors. I’m suggesting an Olympics to which we can all relate. I’m talking one that gives the gold medal for things like marathon bladder control, highest blood pressure and for overcoming daily grooming ...

 For most of my adult life, I rarely took so much as an aspirin. That changed in ’18 when I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s.Today, I take five different pills four times a day for a total of 10 pills.I’d right up front here tell you all their multi-syllabic names but the names are so uniformly intimidating they’ll make your head hurt and I wouldn’t want to do anything to hur...

                                                Call me old-fashioned, but a tweet to me will always be 140 characters. Note, I didn't say 140 words. I said 140 characters. The original tweets wou...