Just a piano player

In the Fall of 1969, I arrived in Baltimore as a freshman at Johns Hopkins. I remember thinking, as my parents began the drive back home to ...

I grew up in a little town in Upstate New York, where my traditionally-Conservative Jewish upbringing defined my family life.  I moved to Po...

Last night, we went to the (relatively) new film 'Yesterday'.  We had seen the trailer some months ago, so I knew the premise, and, ...

I had an idea this morning, for a science-fiction short story, which could be developed into a summer blockbuster film.  The trigger was an ...

When my wife and her brother were somewhere in adolescence, they stumbled on a document that made them realize that BOTH their father and mo...

Today's headline confirms what I've long been thinking, about the condition of my home planet, in the years after (I hope) I am no l...

Two celebrity chefs announce an upcoming dinner party, to be held at a fancy rented hall. A large number of the invitees remind the chefs ...

If there really is such a nebulous thing as the Earth having a 'Global Consciousness', that consciousness must surely be blinking re...

Here in The Present, we experience Life moment by moment, our perceptions always colored by our memories of The Past (unreliable/delusiona...

I've been thinking a lot about Elmira, New York, my home town, and mortality, the passing of time, and the passing of generatio...

Open Letter to Neil Gorsuch Neil, I am writing to you about a great opportunity, for which you are uniquely qualified.  I have already dra...

All this time, I've been thinking that there were two very separate forces at work in the Age of Trump: 1)  The relatively-recent miss...

There are a lot of hopes being raised about this Constitutional text being our 'Get out of Trump Free' card. It's not going to...

Traditionally, it's: Denial – The first reaction is denial. In this stage individuals believe the diagnosis is somehow mistaken, an...

OK, it's come down to this. Given the increasing evidence of Russian meddling, the long-recognized Russian entanglements among many of...

For the sake of propriety, let me substitute the more-refined notion of a 'Poke in the Eye' for the common gesture of a raised middl...

Many years ago, when I was a young Programmer thrust into the role of 'Systems Analyst', I had the good fortune to share an office w...

Reading about some of the apparent beliefs of the more extreme corners of the Trump-is-great crowd, I am reminded of something that occurred...

Et tu, NPR? On Morning Edition today, they were interviewing two economists (of different persuasions), to analyze Trump's recent ...

We are watching, on Amazon, a popular TV show that had multiple seasons.  We are currently many seasons in and 2 from the end (no more spoil...