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I've been to Gettysburg only twice, although for seven years I lived in Baltimore and could have driven there most any weekend.   The fi...

Now that I am approaching 70, and recovering (I hope) from a back injury that has limited my mobility, Karen suggested that, rather than lyi...

I was introduced to Christmas songs in Kindergarten.  Before then, I had not heard any, due to the simple fact that, there in 1956, I was a ...

A 'pro-Life' advocate was interviewed on NPR this morning, expressing her joy in the new member of the Supreme Court.  I am, once ag...

People of a certain age - I always felt that that phrase referred to people OLDER than me, alas - certainly remember the hoopla when the Sal...

A friend posted a web piece by a guy who was sincerely trying to understand local acquaintances who were dedicated Trump voters.  This excha...

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...