So You Want to Be a Real Estate Agent

So You Want to Be a Real Estate AgentI didn’t become a real estate agent in my mid-60s because it was something I had always dreamed of being. I’ve never been very good at Monopoly. For more than 40 years, I had been a writer and editor at national publications. I’d still be doing that, had it not been for the Internet, which decimated the print media. My original career, essentially, had been sent back to “Go.” A few years ago, I reached out to an old friend. When he was in his mid-50s, he reinvented himself by becoming a real estate agent. He’s done very well, and by now could retire comfortably. I followed in his footsteps.

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An Appointment With Destiny

An Appointment With DestinyThe scariest thing in the world is to be told you have the ‘Big C.’ But the doctor didn’t say that.

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Miss Kitt To You

Miss Kitt To YouI couldn’t imagine why Eartha Kitt—’the most exciting woman in the world’—would want to hang out with someone as ‘unsophisticated’ as me.

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Apple’s Tim Cook Came Out and We Can Relate

Apple's Tim Cook Came Out and We Can RelateIt’s not about being gay, it’s about knowing and showing who you are.

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Hello Darkness, My Old Friend

Hello Darkness, My Old FriendThis holiday season I became the confused old man behind the wheel that I used to dread encountering on the road.

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