Similarly…

i have to apologize for the "chipmunk" Nancy Pelosi remark ("the guile of a Nancy Pelosi"--better left unsaid.) It was several years ago but I sensed that it lingered. I realized that i have had trouble in my life with a Satanically inspired wit. Things sometimes just roll off my tongue that derail people and … Continue reading Similarly… →

js woke up; more on this

yes as i have recently explained my repeating a horrific anti--Semitic "joke" that shouldnt have gone anywhere. I did it to piss off my father in a tense situation in a holiday get together; as he devoted himself to Jewish company and causes at "the Labs" in Murray Hill, many of them were emigres like … Continue reading js woke up; more on this →

About an offense to the Jewish community

I do so apologize about an anti-semitic "joke" that was told by me at a desperate moment in my family life at a Thanksgiving dinner that was anything but. It was told among a series of offense jokes that were similarly stupid but logically clever. I will not repeat them, obviously. Some were about handicapped … Continue reading About an offense to the Jewish community →

Apology

I heard in my head last night that a genealogical search would show that I was not Jewish. That led me to feel so lost. I said to myself, and to my son in a text, "I got really pompous over thinking that I was a Jew but I'm suddenly realizing that maybe I'm not." … Continue reading Apology →

Portal

I wrote a story about Adam and sent it off to Barbara after my son was born and we had moved, in a panic, from Buffalo to Germantown, Maryland. We started out in California on a farm managers house on an orange ranch. The rroom where our son would have stayed was filled full of … Continue reading Portal →

Road Kill

Its about Dr. Gross in Allentown 24 years ago. He just didnt understand. He saw it about the sexual OCD because I was carrying on with a male patient who had just been pulled from the river. Generally that's who I picked on, VULNERABLE PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF. Also because I had written a story about … Continue reading Road Kill →

Needing the help

I've been picking up puzzle pieces, connecting the dots, dotting the i's and crossing the t's, resolving the disconnects; for a COMEBACK. This has been DECADES in the making. The disconnect I picked up on today that has everything falling into place is the urology appointment in Florida that got canceled because of a hurricane. … Continue reading Needing the help →

Mending Fences with Black America: revised and updatedx10; Apology Retracted

NOTE: I found in the past that speaking openly in this matter moved the conversation forward so i do not remove this post even though i hesitate to leave it here. When i wrote to the Times about reverse prejudice in South Flirida, there was a plethora of commentary about the Black mans low self … Continue reading Mending Fences with Black America: revised and updatedx10; Apology Retracted →