June 9th, 2025 Prelude This is a speech 16 years in the making. A priest, a man like other men, prone to sins of pride and ignorance, must have been running late for his golf game, so he chose to skip my father’s eulogy when he said Saul M. Weiss’s funeral mass in April of […]
Winter in America
Dateline November 6, 2024 It’s been over a year since I last blogged. Last night, America elected its first dictator. This summer, the Supreme Court granted him the powers of a king. A moderate Republican friend says that “all this is just the sweep of history” and says it with the stoicism and 64,000 foot […]
Fifth and Final Week
Final week of my 30 day fast in which I lost 30 pounds.
1-01-21
Damned happy to be here. What about you? This year started like all others while the previous one ended like nothing I’d seen in my 64 years on this planet. My head, like my backyard, is full of fallen leaves and both need a thorough raking to clear them. Outdoors it’s raining, I never could […]
Corona Diaries 14 —Final for now
Closing a chapter of my Corona Diaries, for now
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