Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.
Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.
If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.