As much as we reveal in our blogging, we also intentionally conceal a lot. I’m sure it’s not just me. I prefer to not expose the rusting underbody of our lives to the world at large. I do not blog… Read More ›
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LEARNING PHOTOGRAPHY FROM ALFRED EISENSTAEDT
We don’t need all the widgets in our cameras’ menus. We think we need them because camera manufacturers want us to think we need them. We don’t.
IMAGINATION, REALITY, AND GETTING YOUR ROCKET OFF THE LAUNCH PAD
I’m sometimes slightly hazy about the roughest parts of my life. It isn’t that I have no grip on reality. More that time has a way of softening the edges of hardest truths and making them less edgy. I seem… Read More ›
THE REAL BEGINNING
As much as I hate telephones, I loathed pagers. I was, admittedly, spoiled by years of minimal interference in the field. We did the usual schtick on the 2-way. Hand over mouth responding, “We can’t hear you. You’re breaking up…. Read More ›
OUTLIVING THE BITCHES – AN OLDIE, BUT STILL A GOODIE
One Sunday in church, Pastor’s sermon was about forgiveness. He asked everyone in the church to stand up. Then he asked those who had any enemies to sit down. Everyone sat down but one very old woman. “You have no enemies at… Read More ›
A SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR YOURSELF
Home Alone, by Rich Paschall So, it is Saturday afternoon. You don’t have to go shopping. There is no dry cleaning to pick up. There are no appointments to keep. Friends or relatives are not expecting you at a shower,… Read More ›
WHAT WOULD STEVE McQUEEN HAVE DONE?
It must be payback. Karma, hubris, or both. For more than 30 years, I drove a succession of fully loaded convertibles with Steve McQueen in my brain. Once, I was racing to a story in the dead of night when… Read More ›
OUTLIVING THEM ALL
One Sunday in church, Pastor’s sermon was about forgiveness. He asked everyone in the church to stand up, then he asked those who had any enemies to sit down. Everyone sat down but one very old woman. “You have no enemies at… Read More ›
ONLY A PAPER MOON
I noticed I have about an equal number of religious and atheist friends. That probably means I’m doing something right. If you get right down to it, I believe in you and me. I believe in intelligence and our right to exercise… Read More ›
MY BITTER ROOTS
I am named after an aunt I never met. In my version of Jewish family, you don’t name babies after living people. Only after those who have passed. This is not true in all Jewish families. It depends on where… Read More ›
EVERYTHING’S FINE RIGHT NOW -SONG LYRIC SUNDAY
FOR SONG LYRIC SUNDAY We all know everything isn’t fine right now but this song reminds me of times when everything was fine. I hope I’m still around when they are fine again. Music triggers memory for me as nothing… Read More ›
SORRY. IT WENT MISSING
TODAY’S UPDATE! I canceled today’s appointment because I can’t prove I’m me. If I were a MAN who had never changed his name, I would be fine. But since I do NOT have marriage certificates from my first marriage —… Read More ›
TOUGH DECISIONS
Fandango’s Provocative Question #153 This isn’t a question I can answer. It’s not that I haven’t had any life-changing tough decision, but because I’ve had so many. Which one was the hardest? I can’t say because all of the hard ones… Read More ›
MY BITTER ROOTS
I am named after an aunt I never met. In my style of Jewish family, you don’t name babies after living people. Only after those who have passed. This is not true in all Jewish families. It depends on where… Read More ›
THE KOTEL
My favorite place in Jerusalem was the Western Wall, sometimes incorrectly called the “Wailing Wall.” In Hebrew, it’s Kotel — it rhymes with motel. I used to go to the Kotel to leave messages for God. We all believed messages left there… Read More ›
PLANS
Few of us have a realistic game plan right out of high school. We might think we do, but not long after we start college or end college and start work, we find the profession we prepared for isn’t it…. Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 