Cold rain, warm heart.
When I came out on to Market Street, I saw that it had started to rain during the two and…
Author: scribbler
The kindness of strangers
Imagine Ruthie dropping her credit card and struggling to get up. Now imagine that Ruthie has two bad knees such…
Friday, November 22nd
Today is Friday, November 22. John F Kennedy was killed on Friday November 22 in 1963. I still remember standing…
Presently aging
What do you mean that the Concert for Bangla Desh happened almost 50 years ago?!? That was just one of…
You will help me, Bulus and God.
On September 22, 1941, the start of the year 5702 in the Jewish calendar, Renia Spiegel wrote in her diary…
City lights
People used to ask if I minded the sounds of the street below our apartment in Princeton. I used to…
Think about the brisket.
My favorite sign in the #phillystrikesback Youth Climate Strike yesterday (September 20, 2019) was “Think about the brisket,” carried by…
How to govern
I realize that some of my recent posts have been nerdy to the extreme so I won’t bore you with…
Brain fry
As I sit and watch yet another beautiful sunset over west Philadelphia, I let my brain recover from finally finishing…
what if the dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two
September 11 is still today. On September 12, 2001, I read ee cummings’ poem “what if a much of a…