Last night I tried to pull in my stomach where the surgeon had made one of five incisions a month ago. I had spinal fusions from L3 to S1. It’s a painful operation and a challenging recovery, but I’m making progress daily due in no small part to laughing with Ray.

The other night, I caught a Lyft from Pompano to Wilton Manors. Almost immediately, the driver exclaimed, “Oh my God, I just kicked a guy out for being mean to me and telling me everything I believe is wrong!”

To commemorate Labor Day, Donald Trump took his campaign crew to the graves of recently fallen American heroes at Arlington National Cemetery, those suckers and losers whose bone spurs did not exempt them from service.

The uplifting pageantry of the Democratic National Convention is over, leaving a national hangover of goodwill. Judging from main stream media headlines, a national sense of relief is spreading, the page is turning, and not just for democrats.