From the Writer's Desk

Umpteen years ago there was a book of sayings from Communist China's Chairman Mao Tse-tung. This is in no way meant to compete with it.

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• When I play music in my workshop, I'm always in a different decade. Who am I kidding? It's always a different century.

• Most of the people whose music I listen to have passed away.

• Dear Elon: If you do away with the penny—and that's been considered for years—you will cancel culture Benjamin Franklin who famously said: "A penny saved is a penny earned." Or now it should be "a billion saved, is a billion earned."

• Now having achieved solid septuagenarian status, I get through the newspaper much faster. I don't need investment advice since I have little money. I've nearly outlived it. I don't need to decide if I should take early Social Security. I already did that years ago.

• Additionally, I don't need relationship advice since this October my wife and will be married 50 years.

• Some might think that qualifies me to give advice. Here it is: In order to achieve sustained longevity in a relationship, two things are important: Two TVs; two rooms. Over the years one of you is likely to want to watch with a passion Fox News and the other one isn't going to want watch Fox News. Overhearing it is enough. I get all the news I need to know from TV just by walking past it. (Nod to Russell Baker on learning of the progress of the O.J. trial.)

• And I don't need guidance on what to wear. I put on whatever is clean and don't care how I look.

• Have you ever seen a British miniseries, or Mystery episode where the Brits fail to remind you of what train travel was like?

• A front page teaser for a special section of the WSJ on April 14, 2025 leads to a rather long piece on health. The teaser asks: "When is the best time to tell friends and colleagues you have Alzheimer's?"

Uh, before I forget?

• Rory McIlroy won The Masters at about 7:15 P.M. on Sunday, April 13th. The NYT, that likes to tell the world it deals in "All the news that's fit to print" should change their motto to: "Yesterday's news tomorrow," because Rory's story appears in Tuesday's NYT.

• Despite the daily commercials by Renewal by Anderson for replacement windows and doors, and the mail box flyers, we do not need new windows and doors.

• Every morning I wake up I feel my contract has been renewed.

• When I put the morning news on, it occurs to me that there a lot of people who've gotten up before me.

• Rebecca Lowe, anchor desk broadcaster for NBC/Peacock telecasts of Premier League Soccer, talks so fast, but distinctly, she could auction off cattle.

•A Jeopardy clue the other night revealed why a knife can be called a "pen knife." Ready? When there were no pens as we know it today, writing was done with a sharpened quill point—a bird's feather. And that sharpening was done with a small knife, which became called a "pen knife."

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