I had seen on TV that David Mamet was in town and had moved into a five star hotel in New York City. I was watching the news and a report it showed him walking down the street wearing a white linen suit with sandals and he had a beard and mustache and long gray hair that he wore in double braids pinned to the back of his head.   I decided to take advantage of the opportunity and knowing where the hotel was, I came up with a plan to go there and wait for him and at the right moment walk up to...

I was sent back to high school in Chicago to finish my last six credits and was put in a gym class where they were playing 16-inch softball for the whole semester.   The head coach was cranky African-American man/woman hybrid, and Adam Driver was the assistant coach.   At the beginning of the class, Driver was demonstrating some basketball techniques while shooting hoops in jeans, loafers, and a white button-down Oxford cloth shirt.   At one point, I approached Driver and introduced myself...

Julia––a woman I've known since we met when we were in our twenties living in Granada, Spain––had rekindled our friendship in our 60s and...