Google, it seems, has stolen my identity. Well, that’s a bit harsh – they didn’t exactly steal it. That implies something nefarious. But they did, in effect, take it from me. Or, more precisely, they’ve denied it to me. They refuse to accept that I am who I say… Read full post »

From the very get-go, the idea that a wife has to get up on a podium and talk about what a loving man her husband of forty-something years is in order to “humanize” him was, to me, just creepy. Doesn’t it seem a teeny bit Stepford wife-ish?

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Ann Romney is scheduled to speak Tuesday at the Republican National Convention. Based on interviews over the past few days, it’s pretty clear her goal is to get people to see her husband as a real human being, loving, caring and down to earth, someone we might like to invite into… Read full post »

There’s a classic line in the first of the Dirty Harry movies where Harry Callaghan holds the gun up to the bad guy’s head and, through gritted teeth, says, “I know what you're thinking. ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this… Read full post »

This is, or was, Rye Beach, on the northwestern side of Long Island Sound, in Rye, NY.  Here are some pictures taken before, and after, Irene paid us a visit.

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Chinese Proverb: I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write and I understand.

It’s been a tumultuous few days. I try to write, but such a variety of troubling events have occurred that I find it difficult to focus. I want to organize the details, mak… Read full post »

I’ve always felt undereducated. But never more than since moving to New York six years ago. It seems everyone I meet here has a degree or two. Not that I ask them, because I don’t - I don’t want the question turned back on me, because it always embarrasses me… Read full post »