November 2016 Donald Trump just became the fifth president to get elected after losing the popular vote – the second in my lifetime. I am one of the many Americans who think that our President should be elected by popular vote and that the Electoral College is an anachronism that should be abolished. I support…
February 2017 With the Trump administration calling climate change a hoax, the burden now falls on states, counties, cities, towns and individuals to do something to save our way of life. First, of course, we should do what we can to reduce CO2 production. Solar panels on our roofs where appropriate, hybrid cars, electric cars,…
June 2017 When I get up, I go into my office and take down from the wall a large greeting card that my daughter gave me two decades ago. Then I read it to myself. It starts with a cartoon of Garfield the cat who is saying: “Dad, it makes me happy that you accept…
October 2017 Back in the early 70’s, an art director friend (Marty Riskin) told me that a company he did work for, having made a lot of money doing calendars and books featuring a nude fat woman thy caked ”Bridget”, was looking for someone to do “dirty” crosswords. My friend knew I had learned about…
A version of this true story was one of more than 4,000 entries in National Public Radio’s National Story Project in 2001. Author Paul Auster picked 180 of them, including this one, to be published in a book titled “I thought My Father Was God.” In the early 50’s when I was nine years old,…