he Montgomery Bus Boycott began when Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white man. The boycott began when she just said no. This photograph shows Rosa Parks before being arrested. Read her arrest record blow.
Work in progress
Bob Dylan’s”Forever Young”
He was young when he wrote forever young. I was young when I heard it for the first time.
Surviving cancer at Studio 54
Stefon reminded me that after the New York Times published my article on surviving cancer, I was invited to Studio 54 where I danced with a soap opera star at ABC and did not snort cocaine in the men’s room. Stefon’s cued my remembrance when he said, “If you’re drunk in Midtown doing cheap coke off your laundry cart, I have just the place for you.”
“May I have your daughter’s hand in marriage?”
“Nothing personal, Joel, but I would rather see my daughter dead than married to a Jew.”
How to be a hermit by Will Cuppy
++++ How to be a HERMIT or, A BATCHELOR Keeps House By WILL CUPPY TO Isabel Paterson THAN WHOM THERE IS NO——WELL, THAN WHOM THERE JUST ISN’T, THAT’S ALL. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author wishes to thank the new york herald tribune, mc call’s magazineand morrow’s […]
Instead of prayer and meditation…
It is 2:20 AM. I awoke Tuesday morning sick with a cold or the flu or somatic manifestations of despair–certainly not confined to the tax bill, but a sense of hopelessness that after Elizabeth MacDonough, Parliamentarian of the Senate, raised what is referred to colloquially as “the Byrd bath” before Christmas President Trump will sign a […]
What kept me up last night
I am overwhelmed with melancholy. Generally, my ability to get through the day receives a great assist from the genetic gift of optimism received from each of my parents. My father’s optimism helped him survive the reality of pogroms in Russia where a focus on reality was counter productive. My mother’s optimism helped her survive […]
Developing a blueprint for feeding the 20 million people in the world who are starving to death
What began as a research effort to find out why millions of children, women, and men are dying unnecessarily of starvation in the developing world has now turned into an action plan. There is something I can do. I can help rice farmers in Zimbabwe. ++++ ++++ […]