So I do most of this writing very early in the morning say around 1 am. It’s quiet and I can think and the process is very calming. I enjoy this time. This evening I am thinking about the present and all the change that might be happening in the next month. As a result…
The last couple of years of the 70’s decade ware a lot of fun for me. Hard to believe that someone born in 1980 is now pretty much 40 years old. And someone born in 1970, well 50 years old. On the other hand in May of 1978 when I graduated law school I was…
I started Visiting my Life and writing this blog almost one year ago. It was Thanksgiving 2019, November 28 I think. And so much has happened over this period of time. I really started to do this as a way to calm down at night and just relax so I could fall asleep. It was…
I was watching a tv show the other night and a younger person asked an older person, actually a Holocaust survivor if she had a happy childhood. It got me to thinking how I would answer that question about myself. Did I have a happy childhood? The answer didn’t come so easy in my mind.…
One of the things the Coopers and the Shinners have done well over all these years, is family get together. It has always been very important to be together on all the big holidays. They would be Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Passover and various birthdays. So for example we just celebrated Rosh Hashanah…
It is Rosh Hashanah 2020 or 5781 in the Jewish calendar. Now I am not a big Shul goer but this year, in the year of the pandemic, no congregants can go to the synagogue for services. It is all being done by zoom or streaming. We can go to services in the comfort of…
Ah, New York! Where I am from, where I was born and raised and have lived most of my life, truly defines me. I am a New Yorker. Not a New York City New Yorker. I do love the city especially Manhattan, but I am a metropolitan New York City New Yorker. The city and…
I left off visiting my life with my graduation from law school in May of 1978. On that May Day somewhere around May 10th I was 24 years old. I wouldn’t turn 25 until later in August on August 16th. I was a baby. As I recall it was quite a weekend. My parents flew…
Everyone remembers where they were on 9/11. And we all know 9/11 was September 11, 2001. Nineteen years ago the the World Trade Center towers here in New York came down after being struck by hijacked commercial airliners. Another jet hit the Pentagon and another hijacked jet crashed into a field in Pennsylvania when the…
Labor Day 2020 has come and gone. The summer is over. In the normal cycle of things a new school year is (should be) starting. And it is but with COVID 19 restrictions. The virus is still here and spreading but not as quickly as in months gone by. But we have to be careful.…