Memoirs

Table of Articles

Carlos and Me (A stint at electoral politics)	20 April 2024
Losing It (Spectacles gone wrong)	18 March 2024
Academics (The downs and ups of scholastic achievements)	15 March 2024
The Fall and its Aftermath (My ill-fated slip)	25 February 2024
To Look At (Avoiding being caught)	25 February 2024
What Now (Searching)	10 February 2024
My Second Shot (Being understood)	02 February 2024
Birds of a Feather Flocking Together (A sight to be seen)	11 January 2024
The Brown Wrapper (A cop lookalike)	07 December 2023
The Looks on Their Faces (The pleasures of teaching swimming)	20 November 2023
H.O. (An unwelcome smell)	20 November 2023
Moaning and Groaning (Treatment for a pinched nerve)	19 November 2023
Our Day of the Dead (Just light 50 candles)	31 October 2023
Chuck and Me (Coat-tailing and its aftermath)	01 September 2022
Thirty Minutes of Fame (Very well known twice)	12 August 2022
Cycling and Street Safety (Activism and Disappointment)	30 July 2022
The Selectric (Deception on the keyboard)	24 July 2022
The Westie and the Flood (The Falling Rain)	30 June 2022
Fine Wine (The Mystery of the Missing Bottles)	30 June 2022
Holiday Blues (Depression on the Radio)	29 June 2022
An Unfortunate Slip (The horrors of Chicago weather)	29 June 2022
Alfredo (A Bowlful of Fettuccine)	29 June 2022
Imagine the Headline (Almost a DWI)	29 June 2022
The Seeing Eye Dog (An unforgettable trip)	24 April 2022
My Small Talk Disability (Failure to communicate)	24 April 2022
Virtual Travel (When you can't get around much anymore)	01 March 2022
The Freedom Ride (An Awakening on Wheels)	04 February 2022
Journeys to Germany (Trips that tested my Jewish sensibilities)	22 January 2022
Gatherings of Cousins (Annual Ritual)	28 December 2021
Getting Away on the Cheap (Learning to be alone)	28 December 2021
The Gift of Sight (A lifetime of trouble seeing)	27 August 2021
Absent Fatherhood and Redemption (Choosing between work and family)	27 August 2021
A Concise Synopsis of my Life with Linda (From the moment we met)	07 August 2021
Knee Replacements (Life-changing operations)	09 June 2021
Navi (My role model)	30 April 2021
My Mind, my Body and its Prostate (My experience with prostate cancer)	18 March 2021
A Bridge toward Better (My experiences with A Course in Miracles)	24 February 2021
The Chicago 7 and Me (Life in 1960s Chicago )	16 January 2021
The Tower (Predictions of Tarot Readings)	25 December 2020
Missed Opportunities (Miscommunication with my mother in a nursing home)	03 December 2020
Panic (Periodic panic attacks leading to a crescendo)	03 December 2020
The Epiphany (An insight that followed the laying on of hands)	27 October 2020
The Pipe in Venice (A mislaid pipe and sudden notoriety)	19 October 2020
The Marine Corps Cap (A near mishap because of a cap)	20 September 2020
Deception (But who am I to judge?)	30 July 2020
My Mother’s Blintzes (The sights and sounds of blintz preparation)	24 June 2020
My Life as a Point of a Pencil (A brief musing on wasted opportunities)	15 May 2020
Ashes to Ashes (Thoughts during a remote access funeral)	03 May 2020
I Am Among the Formerly Young (A lifetime of wishing I was a different age)	05 April 2020
To Be or Not to Be (Wrestling with an absurdity)	11 February 2020
My Ride To Annie's House (A 474 mile bike ride after 22 years and 2 weeks)	20 May 2019
The Hanging At Four Winds Hospital (The doubts of a psychiatric nurse)	11 February 2019
The Nude Beach (An unanticipated sudden exposure)	25 September 2018
A Bag of Shit (Recollections of inaccessible restrooms)	12 August 2018
The Short-Order Cook (A legend begun in a Jockey Club)	07 August 2018
The Cold Apartment And My Years In Psychotherapy (A presumably abnormal fear of retaliation)	11 July 2018
Miss McDonnal (Adventures with a high school guidance counselor)	26 June 2018
Weight (The ups and downs of the love of or addiction to food)	29 May 2018
Hush (The sound of silence at the Metropolitan Opera)	22 May 2018
My Encounters With The Chasidim (The clouding of perception)	24 April 2018
Heavy (Empathically recalling my own enormous meals)	17 April 2018
The Voice (Unintended intrusion)	19 January 2018
Supine (The turtle and I)	12 December 2017
The Other Side (The unwelcome but potentially useful snore)	20 October 2017
Sorrow (The anguish of the rat)	06 October 2017
Retirement (The anticipation of cheerlessness)	08 September 2017
Dress For Success (The desperate need for new clothes)	07 June 2017
Connie’s Boat (The education of a sailor)	05 December 2016
The Piano (The move that made a man of me)	15 November 2016
At The Top Of The Hill (How it could be for all of us)	06 October 2016
The Vasectomy That Wasn’t (One spasm was all it would have taken)	08 September 2016
Danny’s Birthday On Super Bowl Sunday (A not necessarily funny birthday wish)	11 July 2016
Ruse (Adventures among realistic art)	07 June 2016
Truman, MacArthur, And McCauley (A shameful yet pleasurable charade)	07 June 2016
Fame (A visit from New York City kids to my suburban home)	26 May 2016
Lamentation (A sonnet about death)	06 May 2016
Screamer (Conflict on a subway)	12 April 2016
Group Health Insurance (A shameful insurance policy policy)	12 April 2016