A Necessarily – Amiss Christmas Missive: 2024
This year, 2024, the world is especially troubled. The election season that is finally behind us has been one of the most divisive...
A Bright New Star Shines In Heaven
On June 30th, 2019, after a mercifully-brief and terribly unforgiving illness, Denise passed away in a hospital bed somewhere in Brooklyn New York. I...
I’ll See You After
She was born in mid-August of 2014. About five weeks later, my mother finally and mercifully succumbed to her years-long battle with Alzheimer's. Several...
Meaning & Purpose: Part III
Have you ever watched someone die? I mean, up close and personal while holding their hand as they take their last breath? I have,...
Meaning & Purpose: Introduction
For all that has been said, fairly or otherwise, about human beings, there is one immutable fact about our species that can neither be...
Killing Your Children
The weapon of choice is not the problem. The problem is the decision to use a weapon to solve the problem.
At 65, I Finally Know What I Wanna Do When I Grow up
I was born in Washington DC and grew up in a Maryland suburb just over the line. All of my extended family lived...
Meaning & Purpose: Part II
I am going to whistle past the graveyard of the current socio-cultural and political circular firing squads currently gunning down innocent civilians on city...
Meaning & Purpose: Part I
"What we think is ours alone, what we do affects us all."
Despite them being inanimate objects, words have meaning, and how they...
A Necessarily – Amiss Christmas Missive
This year... 2023... The world is in an especially troubled place.
The COVID-19 pandemic, and associated worldwide hysteria, has finally receded, more or less,...
