A Life Lived Backwards: One Man's Life

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An audio series based on the new memoir entitled, "Larry Ruttman - A Life Lived Backwards: An Existential Triad of Friendship, Inquisitiveness and Maturation." The memoir and this podcast series explore how those three facets of growth, have extended and made the author's life enjoyable and productive into his tenth decade. It's a series of stories about the people, places and experiences that have shaped Larry Ruttman and contributed to his life adventure. Without realizing it at the time, he was always heading to where he is now and hopes his story will inspire others to locate their own life enhancing forces at any age. By applying those wonderful forces, one may find that old age can be the best time of life!

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WHAT SENIORS SURRENDER

Jun 24 2024 17 mins

The incredible twenty-four-year pitching career of Roger Clemens in which he won 354 games, 163 of them after Red Sox GM Dan Duquette allowed him to depart Boston, intoning that Roger was “in the twilight” of his career, may seem an odd place to begin this note. Actually, it isn’t, because belief in one’s self … Continue reading WHAT SENIORS SURRENDER →

GETTING A BOOK PUBLISHED

May 17 2024 19 mins

Not an easy task, especially when it’s one about classical music. Even if it contains stories drawn from face-to-face meetings with over twenty world class musical figures. I had high hopes submitting the manuscript to several major publishers and agents. Some were very admiring, but none said yes. All said the economics were unfavorable. What … Continue reading GETTING A BOOK

MOOKIE BETTS RETURNS

Boston fandom was understandably excited about the return of Mookie Betts to Fenway Park in late August, 2023, almost four years after his untimely and hurtful trade to the LA Dodgers. Did Mookie disappoint on that first visit back? Did Mookie ever disappoint? No and No. Mookie undermined the Red Sox with his batting and … Continue reading MOOKIE BETTS RETURNS →

WELLFLEET HISTORY TOLD

Mar 15 2024 37 mins

As an historian, I was intrigued to receive a letter from the Wellfleet Historical Society that they planned to undertake an oral history project, to be converted and bound into text, in the Summer of 2023, to gather its fascinating history. I volunteered my services, one thing led to another, and in July I sat … Continue reading WELLFLEET HISTORY TOLD →

PRODUCING YOUR OWN BOOK

Feb 25 2024 21 mins

As said, I had some time when getting a trade publisher proved problematical. Then illustrator and friend, Holly Sullo, advised me that as the owner of the copyright to “Intimate Conversations,” I could publish that book privately without undercutting my chances of obtaining a publisher later because there was no agent, and no middleman. I … Continue reading PRODUCING YOUR OW

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

Jan 30 2024 16 mins

I may have surprised my esteemed collaborator, Jordan Rich, when he opened this podcast with the question,” Where do you think mankind is headed?” I answered, “I think we are headed for the destruction of mankind.” That is a view I have held since the bomb was unleashed on Japan, a view that seems quite … Continue reading ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) →

MOVIES THEN AND NOW

Jan 09 2024 21 mins

There is no question that the really good movies hold a mirror up to ourselves, just as do good operas like Mozart’s astounding, “The Marriage of Figaro.” Early on movie production artists realized how big a role music, and all the arts, play in those fascinating movies. Cinema is a very important part of our … Continue reading MOVIES THEN AND NOW →

GROWING OLDER

Nov 10 2023 15 mins

One of the great features of growing older is the fun and interest of being close friends with people of whom we never tire, with whom the conversation always waxes. Such folks inspire us to talk openly, honestly, and helpfully about old age itself. Such a person is my podcast partner, Jordan Rich, who although … Continue reading GROWING OLDER →

THE FRIENDSHIP OF NEIGHBORS AND LONG LIFE

Aug 28 2023 21 mins

Everybody knows Covid changed the pattern of our lives. So too have the crevices now cracking the political landscape of our country. Neighbors used to be friends, adults mixing with kids, young and old mixing with each other. Does that closeness still exist as it did before? Has that difference had an effect on our … Continue reading THE FRIENDSHIP OF NEIGHBORS AND LONG LIFE →

BOSTON THE HUB OF THE UNIVERSE AND FRIENDSHIP

Jul 03 2023 25 mins

Quite a claim, but true. Aren’t zillions of folk drawn to this great city by its multiplicity of attractions from the historicity of its appearance to its institutions of education, health care, biotechnology, business, finance, transport, manufacturing, tourism, finance and insurance, and hardly least, its music, not to mention its storied sports franchises, the Red … Continue