TR EMERITUS

Several decades ago, most people know their neighbors. They know their names, occupations and get together to celebrate birthdays, family events and festivals. Today, most people do not know their neighbors, even those that they lived in the neighborhood for years. They may know the neighbors by face, but probably not their... 

One of my colleagues and I like to describe ourselves as being in the “past the sell-by date,” club. For me, it’s simple. Most of my working life was freelance and I only got “properly employed” at 40 in a standard office job. Given that I switched modes “late in life,” it was clear that there was only going to... 

One of the nicest things that I’ve done was also one of the stupidest. I was a student in London and I befriended a Canadian tramp called Murphy. In a moment of kindness, I led him into my flat to take a shower in return for cleaning my bathroom. When he went to shower, it occurred to me that things could go south, so I stood...