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On a quick trip to Los Angeles last week, I stayed one night each in the elegant past and the automated future.

Lucy Van Pelt, the opinionated little girl in Charles Schulz’s never-been-topped-and-never-will comic strip “Peanuts,” looks looked at a drawing one of the other kids has quickly made and sniffs, “A true work of art takes at least 45 minutes.”

If you learned English as a second language, you are like unto a god to me. I think ours is one of the most perplexing languages in the galaxy, with its limitless supply of synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, and oxymorons. But what of our everyday expressions?

I used to think that having charisma was equivalent to having good hair. This is because the first time I heard the word, when I was nine years old, it was used to describe a trait possessed by the newly elected President John F. Kennedy.

I received a residual check not long ago, issued when someone bought a copy of my most current book, “Don’t Cry for Me, Ardent Reader.”

Why should “sell-by” dates apply only to food products? Why not acquaintances, terminology, celebrity and, of course, politicians? Let’s

Most of us are familiar with the adage that it’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

IDES SAY-SO—Today’s March 15, the Ides of March. For those of you familiar with William Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar,” you might find it hard to say, “the Ides of March” without prefacing it with the word “Beware.”

In an earlier iteration—that is, when I was younger but still the same basic specimen—I loved cooking for and hosting dinner parties at my prior home, which I modestly dubbed Goldmanor.

“Hotel owners have been on an epic hiring spree,” the Wall Street Journal reported a few days ago.