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…
DetailsBig 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…
DetailsSo 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsI 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…
DetailsI 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…
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