MENU
  • How to build a relationship wall

    posted: Jun. 05, 2020.

    Brick by brick you build a wall.   Or, as they sing in BARNUM:  One brick at a time.  And you are only walling in yourself.  Incarcerated for eternity with Read more
  • Navigating Manhattan

    posted: May 25, 2020.

    As my readers know, I have been trying to explore Manhattan by bike while trying not to get involved in a game of Grand Theft Auto.  Today, I finally made Read more
  • 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
  • Depression arrives

    posted: Apr. 23, 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 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
  • Love is darkness

    posted: Mar. 17, 2020.

    Today, in-between the hearings,  I read Oz's A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS.  Isn't that a great title.  I thought it was supposed to be a novel, but it's his 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

Contact Me

No Hours settings found. Please configure it