Change. That one word can be very scary. It can be stress producing. Changing your job, illness, moving……these change events cause That’s what is happening in our lives right now. We just closed our office. Moved the office home. Now it looks like we will move from our apartment in Garden City to a three…
It’s eight months that we have been dealing with the pandemic. And our daily routine has been disrupted for all that time. We no longer have an office that we can go to. For forty years I had a second place in my life known as the office. It broke up your life; home and…
I have no idea what year either of my maternal grandparents came to the United States. My Grandfather Nassana (Sam) Sitkoff was from the town of Siroca in Russia. I know of one brother for sure Usha who also came to the US. There may be another brother from that time but we’re not sure.…
As far as I can tell my great grandfather on my fathers side was a man named Jacob. We know his last name was not Cooper but some longer derivation of that, maybe Cooperstock. I do not know his wife’s name. My grandfathers name was Abraham Jacob Cooper, but he was known always as Jacob.…
I started reading Ulysses S. Grants autobiography. He wrote it in 1885 135 years ago. At the time it was the definitive history of the Civil War and his presidency. He had an extraordinary life from his West Point career all the way through the Civil War and eight years as president But the first…
Anybody who is supporting President Trump because they say he did a good job with the economy, just doesn’t know what they’re talking about. He has not done one thing right concerning the economy since the pandemic started back I March. I know because since March 15 of this year my grand total of income…
I’m guessing these are times when years from now we will remember where we were when we learned that President Trump had COVID-19. It was 1 am in the morning and I was up as I wrote at the time. It got me to thinking what was a similar circumstance to this in our past…
About twenty four hours later and President Trump is in the hospital. It seems as though his illness has gotten worse and he needs to be monitored while in the hospital. It also appears that a large number of people may have been exposed to the virus at a White House Rose Garden ceremony announcing…
Big breaking news at 1:00 am in the morning President Trump has come down with COVID-19. It seems that his not wearing a mask has come back to haunt him. Despite scientific evidence that wearing a mask and socially distancing is effective, President Trump never adapted that policy personally. He held indoor and outdoor campaign…
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…