Dear world, I know you’re probably still out there spinning as usual, Although being powerless and out of internet contact, I have no concrete evidence. I am using the last gasps of power on my Blackberry to send out this message in a desperate effort to communicate with the outside. If the power doesn’t go […]
Paleontology
While I was in New York I spent some time with my brother, who lives nearby. Like many Jewish guys of our generation, he’s a doctor. He’s also a dinosaur—practically the only person in my life who doesn’t communicate by computer. Just before I got to New York last week, my brother finally caved in, […]
Double exposure
Now that swine flu turned out to be a bust as an epidemic, I’m more worried about getting something else…. a condition I discovered in an obscure medical journal and wrote about last summer (you can find it here): GE (scientific name: Grandma Envy) is a newly documented physiological and psychological condition with clearly recognizable symptoms. […]
You've come a long way , baby….
….and I don’t mean the three thousand miles in distance I traveled to New York from California. I’ve also come a long way in time. 40 years to be exact. 40 years ago this fall, a few hundred women enrolled as undergraduates at Yale for the first time in the school’s 300- year history. To […]
Love, Loss and What I Wore
LOVE Of all that I love about New York, what I love most is the theater. I won’t list what I’m seeing this trip; if you love theater too, you’ll just be jealous. I’ll only mention one; the play I saw tonight. It’s adapted from a book I love: Love, Loss and What I […]
a taste for art
Almost every trip I make to New York includes time with my treasured high school friend Deborah. She’s a highly regarded art curator and I get the benefit of her expertise—-she’s tried over the years to expose and educate me to the world of art. This requires patience. Because even after I began creating […]
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