End of the Innocence
There’s a man I know, who makes his living as a salesman like I do. I’ll call him Otto. He works for the same company as me, so I see him at sales meetings and the occasional Sunday night … Continue reading →
Category Archives: The World
Occupy Wall Street – November 11, 2011
Zuccotti Park is chaos. It’s a zoo. It’s America. First of all, calling that block Anybody ‘Park’ was delusional to begin with. It was never more than a couple of marble shelves with a few spindly trees in odd places; … Continue reading →
Grab It For All It’s Worth
It isn’t easy being happy. The older you are, the harder it gets. There’s no feeling happy without kicking up the dust of past disappointments, self-delusion, all the foolishness. The things that made you happy still do; the uncertain, … Continue reading →
Enigma and Occupy Wall Street
The power of silence has always driven me crazy. And I’m not the only one. One of my best friends in high school went through a (short) period of thinking of himself as a lady killer. Anyone who’s a friend … Continue reading →
America Persists
If there is something special about America – not just to Americans but people all over the world – it may be that America is not just a place but an idea, a concept of equal opportunity and fairness, of … Continue reading →
Perspective
Two articles I’ve read in recent days draw an interesting contrast: 1) A study in a Swiss university tested financial traders in a decision-making game and found them more prone to cheating and back-stabbing than psychopaths. The article suggests that while the … Continue reading →
Wha? (Chapter 62,453)
I was on the bus going to work the other day when I passed one of these, right in front of the Staten Island bus depot on Yukon Avenue: The only difference between this one and the one I saw … Continue reading →
Welcome to His New York. Got Kidney?
My friend C.O. Moed has a wonderful blog about the New York that’s vanishing before our eyes and today has a post that I felt needed sharing. Visit her blog here – read, leave comments and if you have help to … Continue reading →
Canaries in a Coal Mine
Cristina G runs a really fine book blog at http://www.alaskanbookcafe.com/ She wrote me months ago (link here) about her son who returned from Iraq ten years ago and the PTSD he shares with Greg, the character who tells the story in ‘Mindbenders’. We’ve … Continue reading →
‘After’: my September 11th stories
September 11th didn’t just force changes to government policy – it forced all of us, for awhile, to see the world with new eyes. Life could come to a cruel and sudden end over issues you might have paid no … Continue reading →