Again After Pamuk: The Inside Story
In the anteroom to the lobby at 3760 88th Street, Jackson Heights, New York, is a mat to wipe feet on and a row of shiny brass mail...
Thanksgiving Omelette
During our years in Jackson Heights, we exchanged Thanksgiving dinners with my parents’ old friends, Joe and Eleanor McMahon, and their...
After Pamuk: Street Museum, New York, Part I
This week, transported in a state of rapture to Istanbul circa 1975, I have been reading Orhan Pamuk’s novel, The Museum of Innocence. It...
Spanish Mind
What expression, common in Spanish, can be found in the English word socks? I was going to begin with a long disclaimer, a list of my...
World War II, Part II Continued
Here at last in these true stories was my crash course in World War II and its consequences. I listened and learned. Saw, not as in a...
World War II, Part II
World War II, Part Two And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. The...
World War II, Part One
The sun was warm but the wind was chill, You know how it is with an April day, When the sun is out and the wind is still, You’re one...
Footnotes
The Thane of Fife, he had a wife; where is she now? Macbeth, Act V, scene 1 Can a blog have footnotes? Am I breaking any rules? I wanted...
Play Acting
I don’t think I’m as morbid as Emily Dickinson with her rafters of satin, roofs of stone, her way of talking about her own death as...
The Day of Atonement
November, 8, 2010 Yet stay; heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes’ palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees....