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  • I Feel The Need

    At first I wrote a blog every few days. After awhile I chose to do it on a weekly basis. And here I am feeling the need to write something I am not aware of but feel its pressure upon me. The most recent blog was on Chicago and our stay there with my son, […]

  • CHICAGO. . .CHICAGO

    I want to share some of my impressions of Chicago since I now live in Green Valley, Arizona, a geriatric and retirement community which is comprised of somnabulists. Of course, being a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker, any city is home to me. The visual verticality of skyscrapers and high rises as well as the individuality of […]

  • “I Am Cultivating The Faculty of Patient Expectancy.” — Chesterton

    When I was about 12 or 13 I caught a film in the Oceana movie theater in Brighton Beach. In those days you  just went to the “movies.”  “Captain’s Paradise,” if I have the title right. It was in black and white, starring Alec Guinness and Yvonne DeCarlo. The premise was simple: here is a captain […]

  • WINNER OF THE SUBTLETEA SUMMER WRITING CONTEST 2008

    “CAMERAS AS REMEMBRANCES OF THINGS PAST” October – December 2008 Edition. David Herrle, editor of Subtletea (www.subtletea.com) has selected the above essay as the winner of his magazine’s summer contest. I am particularly honored because David Herrle is a polymath of the first order. When you access my essay, I urge you to peruse the contents of […]