Out with the Old

  Robbie Burns’ question about “auld” acquaintances also applies to my “auld” clutter. How much longer am I going to keep my 1994 issues of Southern Living magazine? Since my retirement three years ago, I have been attempting to purge…

The Music of Fall

  After taking a walk in the fall of 1819, poet John Keats wrote the following words to a friend: “How beautiful the season is now—How fine the air. A temperate sharpness about it. . . . Aye better than…