I really would like to go back in time. There is way too much going on in the world right now. It is very stress inducing. I want to write about happier more innocent events in my life One of my most happier moments are the summers I spent as a child in the bungalow…
DetailsThe world is still upside down. I’m watching hockey in August as the N.Y. Islanders are still. In the Stanley Cup playoffs. Twenty four teams started and now we are down to eight teams. The Islanders are playing the Flyers and just won game one of the series. Just crazy. Over 172,000 have died in…
DetailsThe days of Covid 19 are really blurring into one another. I am in a perpetual retirement that I don’t want to be in. And while my days are split into day and night, there really is no difference in what I do in the way I spend the twenty four hour cycle. I keep…
DetailsSo we are in the midst of the presidential campaign of 2020. The Democratic National convention is on TV this week and the Republicans will have their convention next week. Former Vice President Joe Biden is the Democratic candidate and President Donald Trump is the Republican candidate. It will be a nasty extremely partisan election.…
DetailsJessica’s birthday. Hard to believe I have a 38 year old daughter. We were married on November 8, 1981 and Jessica was born nine months and nine day later on August 17, 1982. She was my 29th birthday present as my birthday is August 16. These last years August birthdays have been a lot of…
DetailsBirthday postscript It after 11:00 pm on August 16, still my birthday. What a nice day I had. Celebrated with Sharon Jessica, Craig, Jake , Jenna, Jonathan, Jon’s girlfriend Rachel, mom, Elise and Doris. Small circle but this is about the highest number of people I would want in the apartment during Covid virus days.…
DetailsWell it’s my birthday. 67 years old. I think I’ve written this before but I want everyone to stop, take a deep breath; nobody move, where has the tone gone? In my mind I’m still a kid, still growing up. I think I’m still young. The way I look today in the mirror, is not…
DetailsJanuary 1,1974 I was starting the second semester of my junior year and all the things I described above were happening. I really fell in love with Boston. It was, and still is, a young vibrant city. The business of the city was and still is education. There seemed to be a college on every…
DetailsOn August 16, 1973 I turned 20. The decade of 20 to 30 for me would be pretty big. And I was headed back to BU for my junior year of college. I became extremely active in student dorm politics. Each floor had a student government representative and we had three towers with 12 floors.…
DetailsLet’s turn to the 70’s. I can almost go year by year and have some kind of memory or reflection. On January 1, 1970 I was 16 years old and starting the second half of my Junior year at Roslyn High School. I was very active in my USY Jewish youth group and getting ready…
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