LB: Now THIS is a Healthy Young Writer

by Larry Brody

If I had my career to do all over again knowing what I know now, instead of the single-minded determination (AKA self-aggrandizing aggression that a few people may have noticed at one point or another as I pushed myself roward), I would do everything in my power to follow the example of the very young lady below.

Thanks for the life lesson, Rex Morgan, M.D. Where were you when I was 8 years old? read article

LB: “…How to smoke weed socially — and safely — in the COVID-19 era”

by Larry Brody

Speaking of newspaper headlines, LATimes.Com this morning demonstrates the difference between the Big Orange and the Big Apple with a timely article about smoking weed during the pandemic.

The article is long and descriptive, but the first four words of the headline, which I have cleverly hidden until now, tell us everything we need to know: read article

LB: “Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’?”

by Larry Brody

Did you read that headline, gang? It’s the question of the day over at NYTimes.Com, and the good news is that they also have an answer:

The show’s new audience is also seeing something different in it: a parable about a country in terminal decline.

Take a good look at that second to last word. “Terminal.” read article

LB: Attention Vincent D’Onofrio Fans

by Larry Brody

The secret that former Law & Order: Criminal Intent star Vincent D’Onofrio has been keeping for years was revealed last weekend and is just crying out to be shared.

And that secret is: read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #168 – “Rewriting Magic”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned. read article