Change Stinks

I was reading ‘The Ambassadors’, daydreaming about this day in 1971, five days before my twelfth birthday. I’d just moved… Read more Change Stinks

Before And After

The first picture is of my cousin Gary and me… Read more Before And After

As a twelve year old boy, I moved to Lindenhurst, New York. It’s a region characterized by a bay… Read more Lindenhurst

Lately the weather has been warm. We often have nasty violent rainstorms, including thunder and lightning but I happily grin… Read more Nice Weather

On July 3, 1976, my cousin Larry married Rose in Queens. Each year my father’s relatives get together on Independence… Read more Annual Ritual

My head has always been so chock full of such plum useless pointless trivia. Is it really going ever to… Read more A Trivial Pursuity Kind Of Guy Or What

When I was a kid in Queens, I lived in a neighborhood where so many of the families I knew… Read more Italian And Spanish

I grew up In such a nice quiet neighborhood Separated from all else By a little white stone bridge Which… Read more The Little White Bridge

Between the soup kitchen on Pine Street, and the farmer’s market in Kennedy Plaza, my life is often filled with… Read more The Farmer’s Market And Soup Kitchen