Monthly Archives: November 2019

The Thanksgiving-Christmas Holidays often inspire thoughts of loved ones who have left us. You miss these people every day, but the holidays seem to bring memories to vivid life. Yesterday, as my wife Eileen and I were getting the last … Continue reading →

Hopefully, the retailers of America took in the billions they so desperately need to transform their ledgers from red to black. It is good for America to have a booming holiday gift-buying economy. Where the American motto once declared, “What’s … Continue reading →

    I wrote the following for Thanksgiving 2019. Reading it again made me laugh and cry just thinking about what a simple time it was just one year ago. Well, here we are again soon to be assembled round … Continue reading →

The Christmas Season has begun in earnest. We went to the mall today, and, despite the temperature, a distinct hint of Christmas was in the air. There were stacks of firewood ready for you to put in your fireplace, presuming … Continue reading →

In 1890, Jacob Riis published “How The Other Half Lives: How It Lives And Dies In New York”. The book documented with pictures and accounts of the poor in New York City. In 1962 Michael Harrington published “The Other America” … Continue reading →

I was in a big box store on September 26th. I took a picture of Christmas trees and other decorations memorializing the beginning of the Christmas Season…a few weeks after Labor Day. I was still wearing white. Nevertheless, the early … Continue reading →

AI is supposed to scare us. Recall HAL in 2001 A Space Odyssey. A supercomputer takes over a space ship and kills the crew. We don’t need HAL for that we have Facebook and Twitter. Teenagers get bullied on Facebook … Continue reading →