Suprise Me

For 40 years my life has intertwined with the music of Bruce Springsteen. On Tuesday I was priveledged to meet Bruce, and it led to a time of reflection on the past years of my life. Read More

. . . a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already gone past. — Marcus Aurelius Read More

While prejudice takes different forms in different eras, I fear it never really leaves us. Read More

They were always readmitted, though; Dave seemed unable to hold a grudge. Read More

Revising the editor Limits, rules, restrictions, guidelines, walls, trigger my auto-response of arising fierce Kali-spirit that demands the shaking off of the yoke burdening my shoulders, spitting out the bit between my teeth, severing the ball and chain cutting into my ankle, and pulling the barbed wire from around my throat, to run wildly into… Read More

Mao Tse Tung, Uncle Ho / Dow chemical has got to go Read More

So now we have a messenger. Read More

We would go to Bloomingdale's and Saks and try on all the hats in the hat department until the sales people threw us out. Read More

My grandkids live in a very different world, characterized by mass shootings, increasing gun ownership, and everyday violence that claims so many lives in cities like Chicago near where I live. Read More

This time I'll let the clip tell the story...if you're old enough, you'll likely get a kick out of  it. Read More