Suprise Me

On this Halloween, I pray the results of the upcoming election do not make it into another one that haunts me. Our country deserves a treat rather than a trick this time. Read More

Okay, I admit it. I’ve always been a lousy speller. Though one might not expect this from a straight A student, it is true. I can’t account for it. Perhaps it has to do with lack of ability to visualize abstractions in my head. I don’t know; it just is true. In fifth grade  (the… Read More

Skee Ball When I was a kid my grandparents lived a few blocks from the beach in Far Rockaway,  in Queens,  New York.   I loved visiting them  – and especially in the summer when Rockaways Playland was open for the season. Created in 1902 by roller coaster designer LaMarcus Adna Thompson,  Rockaways Playland had… Read More

It was a cool gig, for sure. Read More

difference between charm and charisma. Read More

Diversity,  It’s on Tap On Nov 19, 2022 a 45 year old Army vet named Richard Fierro was with his wife Jessica,  their daughter Kassie,  and some friends at Club Q,  a gay bar in Colorado Springs.  They were on the dance floor when a man armed with an AR15 -type weapon entered the club… Read More

If I did have my DNA tested I am quite sure I would not find that I was related to George Washington Read More

Kitchen Radio Back in the 50s it seemed – much to my childish angst –  my parents were the last on our Bronx block to get a television set.   But of course we always had the radio. My dad was a self-taught classical pianist and we had what was then a state-of-the-art hifi system… Read More

My dad lost his Chrysler dealership, due to bad business deals and the UAW going on strike, leaving him with no inventory, in 1967. My mother’s 1967 Plymouth Valiant was the last car to come from that dealership. I student taught my senior year at Brandeis and needed a car, so I bought it from… Read More

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