Suprise Me

When we got to reciting the ten plagues during our Zoom seder, I know all of us were thinking about an eleventh one that kept us apart this year. Read More

Starting in the late 80s my computer professional career took me around the world; America (25 of our 50 states), Japan,  Canada, England, Scotland and Ireland. Everywhere I worked  I would go out and shake my booty (dance) and every (and I mean every) dance locale would end up playing (then and even nowadays) the… Read More

I like to take my time when I pronounce someone dead. Read More

Risking covid to save the nation. Wish me luck! Read More

I am one of the earliest born of the Baby Boomer generation which still left me too young to be aware of the pioneers of the Rock and Roll phenomenon as it was being born.  I missed the early years of the likes of Bill Haley and the Comets, Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, The Big… Read More

My mom loves to tell a certain set of stories about me over and over. This is one of them: on my first day of first grade I came home from school and drew a diagram of the classroom. My mother already knew I was the smartest kid in California, but this was honest to… Read More

      Rush hour is a daily ordeal, a gauntlet thrown down by urban existence. It is a time when the open road, a symbol of freedom, transforms into a congested, serpentine nightmare. The once-fluid asphalt becomes a parking lot in motion, a claustrophobic ballet of honking horns and overly impatient drivers. Beyond the… Read More

The Fortune Cookie Candidate  As the most important presidential race of our lifetime approaches,  and we hold our collective breath,  I remember another trying time and another election,   although one that was relatively angst-free. When I was an undergrad at NYU Heights in the early ‘60s I really threw myself into college life.  … Read More

The most dangerous thing I ever did was the consequence of the most dangerous occurrence that ever happened to me. Read More

A comforter Of mottled gray-black clouds To hide beneath. Read More