Archives for January 2014
Glenn Gould – Mozart, Piano Sonata No.11In A K.333
My mother’s role in overthrowing the legally-elected government of Guatemala
One year after Mother and I returned to Miami Beach, Florida from Simon Kreindler’s bar mitzvah in Guatemala, President Dwight David Eisenhower (“Ike”) directed the CIA to overthrow the legally elected government of Guatemala. Mother immediately took credit for this success. What follows are the facts as described in Pulitzer Prize winning David Halberstam’s book […]
What is the meaning of this?
My webmaster explained I can create a Featured Post simply by clicking on the category box “Featured Post.” She said, “I am sorry I cannot make it more complicated.” Indeed, she should be. Simple is not my style as anyone who knows me can verify. The eternal question, Why do I want to feature anything? […]
INTOXICATION
One must be for ever drunken: that is the sole question of importance. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time that bruises your shoulders and bends you to the earth, you must be drunken without cease. But how? With wine, with poetry, with virtue, with what you please. But be drunken. […]
Help me fix my teeth
My mother would add the word please to this request for financial assistance–assistance to save me from false teeth. Both Mother and Father died in Jewish old age homes with their artificial teeth in a glass, unable to express just where their dentures did not fit or what was required to avoid pain. Nor did […]
Income inequality Huey Long style
Where is Huey Long Now When We Need Him?
My paternal grandparents Meyer and Jenny Solkoff
Until last year, I rarely cried. Now I cry with a frequency that startles me discovering its relief not quite sure it is the “manly” thing to do. As a child, I had a firm grip. When Meyer, whom I always referred to by the Yiddish word Zeyda, meaning grandfather, died, I was five, I […]