First. Don’t get Captured.
An F-15E Strike Eagle, shot down over Iran. Both crew members ejected. The pilot rescued within hours. The second airman, a Colonel, spent more than a day evading capture in…
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April 11, 2026
“How’s the cow?”
"Sir, it is with great humility that an insignificant example of the species homo sapien, a fluke of nature, such as I doth approach an omnipotent majesty, an exalted guardian…
April 1, 2026
An Ordinary, But Grateful Man
It started with a French class. Brooklyn College, 1959. A discussion of the philosophical writings of Blaise Pascal — 17th century philosopher and then some. I had truly enjoyed the…
March 26, 2026
Drop Your Drawers and Get on the Gurney
A message to you young folks. (Anyone under 70.) If you are as lucky and blessed as I am, and you become an octogenarian, this is for you. Getting old…
March 6, 2026
Life Decisions Made by “Mush for Brains”
In my senior years, it has struck me that we make many of our life-affecting decisions when our heads are full of mush and we know so very little about…
February 19, 2026
The Dude in Charge Learns to Let Go
I’m going through the second most difficult transition in my lifetime. The most difficult, of course, has been the loss of my partner in everything for 61 years. Everyone already…
February 9, 2026
I Am Not a Cat Person… Riiiiight
Ziva is my cat. She is my only constant, live-in companion since Marjorie passed away. For the record, my wife and I, at least I, were never cat people. Or…
January 22, 2026
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
I have always been struck by the truth in the two simple lines that open Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities:“It was the best of times. It was the worst…
January 18, 2026
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned
No discussion of a typical 1950s pre- or early-teen Catholic boy’s Saturday agenda in Flushing is complete without mentioning the sacrament of Penance and the rite of Confession that went…
January 10, 2026
Memories That Stick
25-11 150th Street;150-12A 26th Avenue;194-01 37th Avenue, Flushing, New York. Those were my three addresses in New York City from 1947 to 1961. FL 8-6178;NE 2-6272;BA 5-1806. Those were my…
December 30, 2025