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The best course I ever took in college was a history course entitled, Technology And Culture. It was a colloquium requiring a great deal of reading and short written summations of the day’s required readings, as well as our interpretations … Continue reading →

Bless me, Father for I haven’t written. It’s been over one month since my last dissertation. On this wondrous of days (I just love Fridays despite having been retired for over nine years), I wish to provide my thoughts on … Continue reading →

The first day of spring has always been a time to celebrate life…that is life that is played on a baseball diamond or softball field. It sometimes was a period of frustration when the vestiges of winter still lingered on … Continue reading →

Happy Sunday to all. I’m trying to make this a good Lenten observance. It’s been so long since I have done so. (Which sounds just a tad bit like Confession.) As kids, we were always urged to give up something … Continue reading →

The other day, I was checking out of my doctor’s office and setting up for my next appointment. (Going to doctors is the extent of my social life, and I have very little room on my social calendar due to … Continue reading →

Today is supposedly the 60th Super Bowl…this is false if only in semantics. The first two games between the NFL and AFL champions were called the AFL-NFL Championship Game. The first Super Bowl was actually played in 1969 and was … Continue reading →

We used to be proud of the description of America as a nation of immigrants. Now, the children of immigrants, many of my generation, anticipate that emigration may well replace immigration as the American dream. Watching what is going on … Continue reading →

I wanted to name A Bronx Boy’s Tale, My Back Pages, inspired by the Byrds’ version of Bob Dylan’s song of the same name. But the people at Create Space, where I was publishing my book, suggested that a title … Continue reading →

My recollection is that PJ and I met on a huge mound of snow, the remnants of a delightful blizzard that kept us home from school during the winter of 1959-60. I could be wrong about the year, but we … Continue reading →

We lived on the East End of Long Island in a hamlet (I think it was a hamlet) in the town of Southampton. My wife and I and our three children made East Quogue our home for over thirty years … Continue reading →