MENU
  • My life as an English Major

    posted: Mar. 13, 2019.

    On your I-Phone, you no longer have to live in the present. So, incontinent with nostalgia and the path not chosen takes its toll. These thoughts came to mind when Read more
  • Update: Crime Scene Cleaner

    posted: Mar. 03, 2019.

    Well, for those dying (hah) for the latest on our basset-faced man of blecch, this week's episode gives us a bit of backstory.   Schottke receives a call to clean Read more
  • My intellectual life

    posted: Feb. 25, 2019.

    I have a guilty secret.  The introspective, introverted bookworm watches television.  It's not something I'm proud of.  After all, I'm an intellectual.  I never exactly learned how to be an Read more
  • Gradgrind and the sweatshop approach

    posted: Feb. 24, 2019.

    Numbers, numbers, numbers.   The sweatshop manner of profits has tainted all aspects of American industries, including schools (where it always had an affinity (as per Gradgrind in HARD TIMES, Read more
  • Is this your penis talking or is it your fantasy?

    posted: Feb. 10, 2019.

    I have been a psychologist for a mighty long time.  I'm not bragging, I'm simply stating a fact.  I went into this field because I was a curious person with Read more
  • Make 'em laugh.

    posted: Jan. 29, 2019.

    Yesterday I went to the NY Premiere of "Rosa Luxembourg," the opera, with music written by Leonard Lehrmann.  The libretto consists of letters written by RL to various friends between Read more
  • All about the blood flow

    posted: Jan. 23, 2019.

    To all the less than the very young, but not ready for the crypt folk:  Do you feel less joie de vivre these days?  Just plugging away.  Merely alive but Read more
  • A true tale of two cities

    posted: Jan. 05, 2019.

    It was the best of times.  It was the worst of times.  It was the age of crystal high rises.  It was the age of decrepit cold water flats.  It Read more
  • Ambivalent Christmas pasts

    posted: Jan. 04, 2019.

    As a Jew growing up in red-necked, blue collar Unfunky Scummedrine, Christmas was all about loneliness and abandonment.  My parents did not celebrate Christmas in any fashion.  We did not Read more
  • The shock of the camera

    posted: Dec. 23, 2018.

    Early this morning, I gave up on sleep.  I can only sleep for about two or three hours, then I'm up, then it's sleep for another hour, then I'm up. Read more
  • Puff the Magic Dragon

    posted: Dec. 10, 2018.

    On Friday night I saw my significant other, Peter Yarrow, who performed a set at Emanu-El.  Oh, Peter Yarrow, my first love.  The first record I ever owned was Peter, Read more
  • Incontinent nostalgia

    posted: Dec. 04, 2018.

    The other day I asked a girlfriend about her Thanksgiving weekend, where her daughter drove from Florida to New Orleans to pick up her own daughter, then drove the both Read more
  • The shame of our century

    posted: Nov. 27, 2018.

    I have a chalazion on my left lower eyelid.  The word comes from the Yiddish, chazarei, for stupidity.  No, actually, it comes from the Greek word for "hailstone."  It is Read more
  • The terrible twos

    posted: Nov. 25, 2018.

    I attended my parent's friend's 90th birthday party last night.  My parents and they were neighbors in their first apartment on Cortelyou Road.  Both women were pregnant with their first Read more
  • Sylvia the Senile Superheroine

    posted: Nov. 18, 2018.

    My mother, the superheroine. Bet you never thought I'd write that. But her power is not a blessing, but a curse. She just says no. No to everything. Saying no Read more
  • Development over my Lifespan

    posted: Nov. 16, 2018.

    I worry that in my old age I will become one of those NY women who eschew the subway.  These women always give some elaborate rationalization as to why they Read more

Contact Me

No Hours settings found. Please configure it