June 2024 It wasn’t until I wrote the essay, Education in America, in January 2017 that I took a critical look at the social structure of...

February 2024 Once upon a time, almost a lifetime ago, in early February 1977, a very young adult me, barely past adolescence,...

Halloween 2023 Charade by Henry Mancini When we played our charade We were like children posing Playing at games, acting out names...

Autumnal Equinox 2023 Sway Written as ¿Quién será? by Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltran Ruiz; English lyrics by Norman Gimbel; revisions by...

September 2023 “You didn’t know me before you met me.” I made that comment to Dear Husband this afternoon, and he said, “It’s a good one:...

Good Friday 2023 A penstock at a hydroelectric dam, such as Pine Flat on the Kings River in Fresno County, California, is a massive...

Summer 2022 Here’s some music destined to make you smile! I vividly recall this song being played during my childhood at the boardwalk in...

Summer’s End 2021 About ten years ago, during the hot dry summer month of August, I was seated in a waiting room for a dental appointment...

August 2021 I learned a lot about life and business and corruption, and taking flight from the seedier side of life, during the summer...

Christmas in July 2021 During the past week, I was immersed in reading La Nilsson, My Life in Opera. The English language translation...

Autumn 2020 Last night I started to translate the beginning of Book 6, La Résistance, Chapter 81 of THE DAWN. It had been a busy day,...

2 July 2020 Yesterday, I was working on my laptop, quite happily I might add, working on the translation of Chapter 74 of THE DAWN into...

February 2020 I did not watch Columbo, or any of the NBC Mystery Movies when they were initially on the telly in the 1970s, or, more...

October 2019 Growing up in New Jersey, I departed at a young age from that state with the conclusion that corruption between politicians...

5 July 2019 My years in Washington, D.C. were wretched ones, highlighted by a half-a-dozen stellar, stalwart individuals whom I...

The April Fools 2019 This phrase is not mine. I found it in a diatribe posing as a book review on the rain-forest selling platform that...

February 2019 We met in the mists of time, and though he did not see me as clearly as I saw him, he saw me well enough to know that I...

Happy New Year 2019 I don’t go to Reno anymore; I go to Zappos. It’s a pass line bet, each time that I order any pair of shoes or boots...

November 2018 Semester Slump: The Thing In Itself It has been several years since my Dear Daughter was working mightily to finish her...

18 October 2018 The question was simple and direct enough.  The answer was not.   Sometime during the mid-1980s, my co-worker and friend,...