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Harry’s Choice – a short story

     This short story was published in the Winter 2021/2022 issue, volume 42.2, of the literary journal Pennsylvania English. The story is, at least in part, about a quality of life issue. I was not consulted about the cover… Continue Reading →

The greatest jazz pianist

    I have always loved listening to jazz pianists.    The first jazz pianist I ever heard was Erroll Garner (1921-1977) when he gave a concert at Brooklyn College in the late 50s and he has long been a… Continue Reading →

Go East, not-so-young man, go East …

     In 1837, Horace Greeley (1811-1872), then founder and editor of the fledging literary magazine The New-Yorker (not related to the modern New Yorker, established in 1925 by Harold Ross and his wife, Jane Grant), wrote “Fly, scatter through… Continue Reading →

A great American speech

Saturday, January 7, 2023      Last night, when it was past midnight in Washington D.C., I was privileged to see and hear one of the great American speeches. Most people did not watch since it came so late in… Continue Reading →

Big Bike Man

short story, brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a few characters. Vol. 1 Brooklyn, October 17, 2021 Founded in 2009, Volume 1 Brooklyn engages and connects the literary-minded from Brooklyn… Continue Reading →

Elizabeth

    When Queen Elizabeth met with the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, a week ago, on September 6, I remarked to my wife how well the Queen looked, in the brief news clip, as she stepped briskly to the… Continue Reading →

Ugh – a short story

Charlotte ate at Holly’s seafood restaurant more times than she could count. Annual gatherings with a dozen or so friends, beginning in their senior year of high school and still continuing as a few of them were starting menopause, even… Continue Reading →

My Mother’s Violin

In 1994, as I was approaching my 55th birthday, I realized one of my (many) regrets in life was that I never learned to play the violin, an instrument whose music I very much love. I own a violin –… Continue Reading →

On watching Bernstein conduct the Tchaikowsky 4th Symphony

You should watch the 1990s video of Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra playing the Symphony #4 by Tchaikowsky as soon as you can but you have to do it before mid-day July 16, 2021 when the New… Continue Reading →

Crohn’s, Crohn or will some other name do as well?

What’s in a name?That which we call a roseBy any other nameWould smell as sweet     William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet There was a time when only physicians and medical students knew the name “Crohn.’” Even if you are only… Continue Reading →

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