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...

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...

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,...

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,...

Mid-October 2018 Coming-of-Age: Unintentional Training Since I am not a morning person, I need to warm up to my first meal of the day....

Heatwave 2018 This morning while Dear Husband was out walking the hound, I decided to call him on my Me-Phone. I noticed, as the outgoing...

Dog Days of Summer 2018 People have asked me at times why the Beagle is my hound-of-choice, my dog-of-preference. I could say things like...

July 2018 The promo for NOCTURNE begins: “The worlds of medicine and music collide in NOCTURNE . . .” During an earlier phase of my life,...

July 2018 Ahoy: All Hands on Deck! It’s entirely a matter of speculation, but I highly doubt that Lawrence Kudlow, economist...