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Rascally
What is my favorite animal? This is a very difficult question for me to answer, because although there are currently no animals in my life, I sure had a lot of them growing up! Big Bird was always very friendly, and educational, too. Krypto was a very cool dog, who could fly! He even had Continue reading
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Hard To Choose
The five things I do for fun today are much different than they were when I was in my twenties. Back then, they were, in no particular order: Today, they are, also in no particular order: Continue reading
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Gram
Growing up my favorite person – by far – was my Grandmother. Never raised her voice, or bossed me around, or complained about my grades. We were always happy when we were together. She loved me. Came all by herself from Poland when she was a girl. Had to scrub people’s floors to make a Continue reading
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Never Let Them See You Cry
Mike was our first child, and he was just what we wanted. Curly blond hair, beautiful smile which was always on display, funny and well behaved. My problem was I had to figure out a way to teach him how to handle himself once he started school. I knew how mean kids could be; this Continue reading
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Bagel!
What snack would you eat right now? Right now? Bagel. Earlier? Bagel. In a little while? Bagel! I love bagels. A little bit of salt on them. Sometimes cinnamon raisin. Or even everything! What other snack can give you everything? With butter early in the day, otherwise cream cheese. Lox is both delicious and too Continue reading
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Safe Streets
Come up with a crazy business idea. Not too long ago I read about a councilman’s idea to pay people for reporting obscured license plates. The plates in plastic holders, the plates with leaves taped to them, the plates that are faded. Which makes them impossible to read on toll bridges and tunnels, costing the Continue reading
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Decapitation
Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it? I was attached to a doll I named Goggi. He belonged to my older brother before me. He was an ugly little boy doll wearing overalls, about eight inches tall, with the top of his head painted a light orange, Continue reading
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Getting Old
Kids are taught that there is no such thing as a stupid question. That questions are inherently smart. When I was a kid and I asked a question, the response was usually something like, “Shutup, stupid.” So I basically stopped asking. Now that I am old, people stop what they are doing to be certain Continue reading
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The Agony and the Thrill (with epilogue)
I have been to many notable Mets games over the past half century. Ditched school one Passover afternoon to go to Shea and watch Tom Seaver strike out 19 Padres. Sat in section two of the upper deck in 1973 for the Blessed Bounce game (Cleon to Garrett to Hodges). Was seated right above the Continue reading
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Baby Girl
When our daughter, Dana, was little she was as happy as a little girl could be. About 40% of the time. The other 60% was another story. She could be smiling and laughing and showering me with hugs and kisses, when suddenly a thought would cross her mind. A dark shadow would come over her Continue reading
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Gotta Run
I am a runner. Have been since 1984. I remember reading about the first NYC Marathon back in 1970 and asking my Mom why anyone, much less 127 people, would want to run over 26 miles. “Because they are meshuga (a little light in the head),” she replied. Made sense. Well, in the last 15 Continue reading
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Got Women’s Sports?
When I was growing up in the Sixties, it was generally assumed that boys were smarter, and better, than girls. That girls were inherently inferior beings. Having been raised by a bad-ass single Mom, I was always somewhat skeptical of the notion. More than a half century later, not much has changed, even when it Continue reading
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