Here’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately—as I get older my responsibility to be a good person grows. That thought hasn’t been a quick one for me to reach. I spent the better part of my twenties and thirties consumed with thoughts of me. As I got into my late thirties my thoughts were primarily about my family and me. As I’m reaching that grand age of 40 though I’ve begun to reexamine a lot the ways I’ve […]
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Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #47
One of the neat things about writing this column is that after you’ve been doing it for an extended period of time you begin to see your life from above. What do I mean by that? Each week you’re thinking about what’s going to be the subject of the next week’s column, as a result you start to see the significance in certain moments. You start to recognize when those moments are memorable and which are going to be the […]
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #46
I’m extremely bad at living life. I mean it, I’m bad at it. Here’s the lucky part for me though, most of my friends and family are pretty bad at living life as well. Oh sure, I know people who managed to become doctors, lawyers, engineers, candlestick makers, etc in a socially acceptable amount of time and by the time they were 28 were married, own a home, had kids, etc. Those people though are definitely the exception in my […]
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #45-A Boy and His Bike
This bike holds a lot of meaning for our man Dave Rullo. Check out why in the latest installment of Aging Hip Replacement.
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #44
I used to be pretty sure that my generation got screwed. The way I figured it, for as long as I can remember, the world was concentrated on the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers. Every day Tom Brokaw would greet us during his 6:30 newscast with another story about how fabulous the generation that fought World War II was, how much their sacrifice and honor meant to the world, how we must never forget what they went through. How […]
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #43
I used to have a theory that the more remote controls you have the higher in social status and class you probably were. Now, don’t get me wrong, in my theory these remote controls had to be for quality audio/video products. My old GPX compact disc player came with a remote control but no matter how many of those you threw into a pile no one was confusing me for upper class. But—you toss a remote that controlled a home […]
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #42–A New York State of Mind
The first time I visited New York it still had parts of it that I had read about in beat novels and saw on the television and in the movies. It was still grimy and dirty and had a certain edge to it. I loved every minute of it. I couldn’t wait to see all of the places I had read about or seen, the locations that for the last 3 or 4 years had been peppering my dreams and […]
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #41
As I’ve mentioned in this column before, I’m going to be turning 40 this year. This is a significant age in my estimation, one that marks the passage of youth. At 40 no one is ever referred to as the young guy or kid. At 40 our bodies are now beginning to accelerate in their decay. At 40 you’ve become what you are, no one talks about when they grow up or when they get older. So 40 is a […]
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #40
There are a lot of events that change you as you grow into a fully formed adult—your first job, buying your first home, getting married to name just a few nothing though changes you more rapidly and in ways you were never ready for more than becoming a parent. My son was born seven years ago this week so I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Since I’ve become a father I’ve at times felt more energized, more exhausted, smarter, […]
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #38
It’s dawned on me that you’ve been reading this column for the past 38 weeks now and while I’ve given up a lot about myself there are still a lot of things you don’t know about me. Don’t excited you aren’t going to find out any deep secrets, but I thought maybe I’d take this week and discuss some of my influences which might give you a little more insight into what informs my opinions. Consider this your primer on […]
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #37
A funny thing has happened on the way to the forum recently, more than once in the last few weeks different people in different walks of life have either asked me for advice or looked to me like an elder who was able to offer teachable moments or impart some form of advice. Now, if you know me at all you know that I look damn good on the outside but on the inside I’m a hot mess that only […]
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #36
We’re in an odd position, members of my generation, made to feel nostalgic about items that were never meant to have nostalgia attached to them. Almost every item from our youth was made cheaper, faster and with faster planned and unplanned obsolescence than our parents and grandparents’ generation. Even those items that were originally manufactured as part of an earlier generation were cheapened when they made their way into my time. This cycle has continued into the next generation. My […]