These are the musings of a retired journalist who recently turned 80. Since I no longer have a conventional outlet for my views and so-called creative writings, I turn to the phenomenon of the blog to have my say.
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This is being written by Mort's wife...
About 10 days ago Mort was severely injured while driving his car out of his garage.
He's had two back surgeries and has not regained mobility in one of his legs.
It will take months of rehab before he's back...
After sharing apartments in Washington, D.C. for three years with other young bachelors, I reached a sufficient state of affluence in 1951 to rent my own apartment. My new home was Apartment 233 at 3701 Connecticut Ave., N.W. It was defined as a...
Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel laureate in literature who wrote in Yiddish, is my favorite author. In 1975, taking a break from my regular work as a journalist who specialized in business, I wrote profiles about him that were published in the New...
For the past 24 years, my wife (born and raised in Boston) and I (born and raised in New York City) have lived in New Jersey. For 18 of those years, as retirees we have been "snow birds" with a winter home in Florida.
But now my wife and I have...
I don't normally publish material written by others on this blog. I am making an exception here to publicize this article by Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini, which exposes ex-President Jimmy Carter as a phony "peace activist." As an accomplished...
