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  • Samuel Kahn: The unknown soldier

    posted: Aug. 12, 2019.

    As I have mentioned, my father was a non-verbal, non-communicative man.  He was good with his hands, as he made me my very first desk.  He also built a padded Read more
  • Blut Bad Tag

    posted: Aug. 07, 2019.

    On August 3, 2019, Latino-Americans learned what German Jews learned on Krystallnacht:  They are no longer protected by the rule of law.  They are no longer considered human beings.  They Read more
  • Here be dragons

    posted: Jul. 29, 2019.

    Today I went to Hudson Yards.  What an adventure.  I cannot endure the journey from the center of the earth that would be the escalators from the subway platform to Read more
  • Every one's anxious

    posted: Jul. 27, 2019.

    There is a children's book entitled "Everybody Poops."  There is another entitled "Captain Underpants."  Both deal with helping children deal and control with the defecation.  Children delight in those books, Read more
  • Life with Z-mom-bie.

    posted: Jul. 24, 2019.

    I guess it is true--you can get accustomed to anything.  I live with the fact that my mother is a zombie, or, since she is my mother, z-mom-bie.  How do Read more
  • What's in a name?

    posted: Jul. 14, 2019.

    Well, back to Tatoreinigor comedy Crime Scene Cleaner. Heiko Schotte, our basset faced cleaning man of blecccch, receives a call to go out to a remote B&B (in the rural area of Read more
  • My Day, inspired by Eleanor Roosevelt

    posted: Jul. 05, 2019.

    Inspiration abounds around Hyde Park.  The first thing you see when you walk into this once and future home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (once and future, as he, the former Read more
  • Calamity, crisis, conscience

    posted: Jun. 27, 2019.

    I try not to let the current political situation intrude upon my blog (historicals are quite another kettle of fish).  However, I cannot be silent about where I stand any Read more
  • You're never alone with a blog

    posted: Jun. 10, 2019.

    I was listening to the "Omar Sharif" track from the "BAND VISITS" just now.  Apparently, there is a movie where Omar Sharif, the actor, says, "You're never alone with a Read more
  • 7K goes bust.

    posted: Jun. 08, 2019.

    Well, this may be a little premature, but it looks like the attempt to get a living wage as a CUNY adjunct has failed.  The PSC is muttering about a Read more
  • Who is crazy? We or the patients? Sequel.

    posted: Jun. 02, 2019.

    As I wrote last summer, Sandor Ferenczi famously started off an entry in his clinical journal pondering this issue:  "Why then should [the patient] place himself blindly in the power Read more
  • If I lived in my grandmother's time

    posted: May 23, 2019.

    When I was a bespectacled bookworm schoolgirl, I was an avid reader of books with titles like, "If You Lived in Colonial Times," "All of a Kind Family," and "The Read more
  • Not inspired by the Tolkien exhibit: The books are many other stories

    posted: Apr. 28, 2019.

    Keats saw a Grecian urn and wrote an ode.  Yeats viewed Brueghel's depiction of the fall of Icarus and wrote a gorgeous poem, starting, "About suffering, they were never wrong." Read more
  • Temple Shalom's Hebrew School

    posted: Apr. 22, 2019.

    My girlfriend from high school got me into the habit of reading the obituaries in the Unfunky Scummedrine Gazette.  I stopped reading after a bit, as though a certain portion Read more
  • Insanity

    posted: Apr. 19, 2019.

    I am concerned about the measles.  At this point, the incidence should be decreasing.  It is not.  And I worry.  I don't know if I was ever vaccinated for measles. Read more
  • It is better to travel hopefully than to ever arrive

    posted: Apr. 05, 2019.

    April is the month of unfulfilled longing.  It is the "cruelest month," it is the month that people "long to be in England," it is the month that gins the Read more

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