Suprise Me

The great river of class, culture and convictions afforded me a way out. Read More

I knew I really wasn't supposed to take the car to the beach, but the temptation was too much. Read More

I particularly liked the weekly feature from StoryCorps, personal stories narrated by one family member to another.  Probably no surprise to this crowd. Read More

This morning (March 23) I awoke to a wisp; it was there, just out beyond my reach, on the outer limits of my brain. I want to write it down before I forget it. Dreams rarely make sense, but they can give some insight into what’s on my mind. In this one, I was going… Read More

Founded in 1948, Brandeis is a young university with a small, largely uninvolved alumni base, though the university is getting better at grooming their younger alumni. The Alumni Office knew they had a winner in me right from the start. I used to stop in and visit, particularly after my kids were born. I’d take… Read More

All time is fluid in human experience. At times, the minutes, hours, years fly by. At other times, they drag down the road like zombies. In our search for logic and meaning we measure time — from the billions of years it takes for light to travel from a distant galaxy to the time it… Read More

That was then; this is now. Read More

Let me pose a question: for a movie to qualify as “re”watchable does it first have to be watchable?  What about Stupid Movies, the kind that seem to exist solely to celebrate their own inanity? Read More

I would laugh at 'All In The Family' while the 'elders' would agree with Archie. Read More

We call them garage sales rather than yard sales, even though they are more likely to be out on front lawns than in garages. Read More