Out of Time? Hurry Up.

  Everyone, it seems, wonders what came first, the chicken or the egg. Well, what about time? Or to be precise, the way time is measured. I guess the day came first and then, once someone figured out division, the hours, minutes, and seconds followed. It would not be an accurately parallel equation to the…

A Bridge in the Woods

  I guess when you think of New York City you might immediately think of cement because of all the sidewalks, but living here the first thing I think of is water. Four of the five boroughs that make up the city are islands, or on islands: Staten, Long (Brooklyn and Queens), and, Little, or…

All About “Where is it Written?”

In 1983 the film ‘Yentl’, directed by Barbra Streisand, was released. I was 23 years old. At that time I was a fan of hers for ten years. Ten years later, in 1993, I put some memories of happenings that surrounded the premiere of ‘Yentl’ into a MicroSoft Word document, titled it “Where is it…

Pumped Up

Pumped Up When did pumpkin flavored everything become a thing? When did “a thing” become the catch phrase for the latest craze? I’ll let the language archeologists figure out the latter but about the former…when did Americans become so pumped up about pumpkin? When I was a kid I only knew three varieties of pumpkin:…

Streisand: In the Camera Eye

    Yes, you can. Well, in this case anyway. Judge a book by its cover. I’m not sure if the saying originated as “You cannot judge a book by its cover” or “You should not judge a book by its cover” but whatever the original verbiage, no need to worry about that when you…