Growing Older and Other Blessings

During exercise class, someone asked if I had watched the Oscars.

"Are you kidding?" I answered. "Watch a bunch of overdressed or undressed self-absorbed narcissistic pretenders pat each other on the back? I don't even have cable."

"You don't have cable?" The class came to attention.

It all started a few years back when I got awake, snapped on Fox News and preceded to listen for a full 10 minutes before turning it back off. It was the entire time the television was on all day. I would try to watch in the evening but could not stand talking heads making false predictions and screaming at each o...