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.…
DetailsOne 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…
DetailsIt 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…
DetailsAh, 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…
DetailsI 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…
DetailsEveryone 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…
DetailsLabor 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.…
DetailsI’ve mentioned in the past how with the virus situation the world is a bit upside down. And in the month of August and now September when the hockey season is over, there is meaningful a Stanley Cup playoff hockey being played. We should be starting to get ready for the 2020-21 season, and we…
DetailsIt has been one week since I last put some thoughts down. I think this is the longest period of time that I haven’t written since I started doing this Visiting my Life. It is now over six months that we’ve been dealing with the pandemic. And there is no time frame for when life…
DetailsIn past entries I’ve written about specific times in my life. I think. I left off just as I graduated college at Boston University and was starting law school at Lewis University in Glen Ellen, Illinois a suburb of Chicago. I started law school in September of 1975 Lewis University College of Law was a…
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