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What I'm reading now
posted: May 23, 2020.
Believe it or not:: The Old Testament. I started to read it for the poetry of Genesis. My earliest recall of how I loved words and sounds comes in Third Read more -
Depression arrives
posted: May 16, 2020.
This is it. I can't be brave or witty or ironic. I am too depressed. My business has dived off the cliffs: In the past month, my billings only come
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Blood
posted: May 14, 2020.
If you can do nothing else--donate blood. And I can do nothing else. All my jobs are lost. In two weeks, I will have no health insurance. I will have Read more -
NYCPsych is the opposite of theory
posted: Apr 13, 2020.
I know that eventually there will be a call for blogs that use psych theory to understand what has been happening to us. This will not be one of them. My Read more -
Plague year: Monday evening
posted: Mar 16, 2020.
A person who pursues acts of charity and justice spreads the gift of lovingkindness through the world: Rabbi Elazar Dice are rolling. Dominoes are falling. People are panicking. Let us be menschen,not Read more -
A journal of the plagued year: Sunday edition.
posted: Mar 15, 2020.
It is more stressful teaching on-line than teaching remotely. Especially when administration decides their way of "supporting us" is to send out nasty grams berating us. The world has gone Read more -
What you want, you won't get
posted: Mar 14, 2020.
CUNY and SUNY have closed. All of us who teach or study within have been told--distance learning. E-learning. Asynchronous study. There was no chance to bid students farewell. No Read more -
My journal of the plagued year
posted: Mar 14, 2020.
With apologies to Daniel Dafoe. The world has really is in pieces. Now more than ever is the time for tikkun olam, But how. New York City is no better than Unfunky Read more -
The world has gone to rack and to ruin
posted: Mar 12, 2020.
"The Return of the King:", p.123, by JRR Tolkien: ................Well, you must choose between orders and ....life.....I think you have a madman to deal with, not a Read more -
The gatesof hell
posted: Feb 24, 2020.
Dear Reader: Tikkun olam has failed. The gates of hell are open wide and all the demons freed. They now roam freely among us all, with all privileges. There is Read more -
The consolation of philosophies, redux
posted: Feb 07, 2020.
I may have written in the past in my blog about Boethius and his consolation of philosophy. Boethius was a big-time advisor to a Roman emperor, a favorite, a sought-after Read more -
Poetry Hour, Sequel:
posted: Feb 05, 2020.
I may have posted this a year or so ago. Whenever the center cannot hold, whenever the worst are full of "passionate intensity," whenever the best "lack all conviction," it Read more -
Poetry hour
posted: Feb 05, 2020.
In 1707, Scotland joined England and ceded their independence as a country in the Act of Union. Robert Burns, a patriotic Scot, allegedly penned the poem, "Parcel of Rogues" as Read more -
Review: "Romeo & Bernadette"
posted: Jan 19, 2020.
This musical starts with blank verse, shoots at the audience point blank until finally, it is greeted with blanket acceptance, "Romeo and Bernadette" is a subliterary delight. It begins with Read more -
Not my first rodeo
posted: Jan 05, 2020.
It is my last weekend in Tel Aviv and the hotel treated us to disasters of biblical proportions. What next? I'll end up in the stomach of a whale and Read more -
The nondozing chosen
posted: Dec 31, 2019.
Dear Reader: Last New Year's Eve, I wrote of my experience with a tale of two cities: one, the soup kitchen, two, the lavish gala to which I was invited. Read more
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