If a drug company were to manufacture a genuine panacea which, by ingesting a single pill, could banish every illness now and forever, the price would be set so high no one could afford it. No insurance company would pay… Read More ›
Day: 11/06/2017
IF NOW’S NOT THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT GUN CONTROL, THERE WILL NEVER BE A TIME – TOM CURLEY
I originally wrote this post when I was watching the mass murder in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. I’m now watching the news coverage of the most recent mass shooting in Texas. It wasn’t as big as the previous… Read More ›
DRIP, DRIP, DRIP. GULP
Finally. Indictments are coming down. Not, in my opinion, nearly enough of them. The whole heap of deplorables should be heading for jail by now. Garry and I were watching the news the other night — for the first time… Read More ›
YIDDISH: THE LANGUAGE I WISH I’D LEARNED – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I grew up in a bilingual household. Everyone spoke both English and Yiddish. Both my parents and both my grandparents. It was spoken all the time in my home. My grandfather actually spoke and read four languages, Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew… Read More ›
THE BROWN MONTHS, THE BROWN LEAVES
When the bright leaves of autumn have fallen, been collected and carted off or tossed into the woods to add to the humus in which everything grows, that’s when the green leaves of the oaks suddenly change — in just… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 