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Solve (more or less) the daily and Sunday NYTimes crossword puzzles with a pen--sometimes real messy and never 100% successful. Write hundreds of vignettes about my observations throughout my life. Write gobs of polemics against right-wing fanatics., ranging from AARP and Twitter posts to letters to the editor. Write lay sermons for my temple.
Area of knowledge and what I know well:
World and American history and literature, Greek and Roman mythology, realistic movies.
Bio
Lover of NYT crossword puzzles, history, writing and literature. Greek and Roman mythology buff. Kent State grad.
Certificates/Awards
Ph.D from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, in June 1972

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GraceWhile I was waiting for my wife to join me at the Hawaii Theater, I saw a matronly middle-aged woman slightly limping across from me. Before she would be out of sight, I, perhaps indiscreetly, blurted out that I would be happy to walk on my own ...
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ENGAGINGEvery day I am entranced (looking out from my lanai) to see configurations of white birds as they soar over the golf course and undulate toward the Koolau mountain range. Sometimes the birds en masse resemble a phalanx of warriors. At other m...
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Only in Hawaii It is fairly standard to see homeless people dragging shopping carts on their respective journeys around town. But what I witnessed a few days ago while I was ensconced in my car was truly priceless. An oversized shopping cart adjacent...
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CelebrateWhenever I go to the ER because of too much buildup of ammonia, I become delirious—at least that’s what my wife tells me, I however, don’t remember anything either about the calamitous onset at home or the continued havoc at the ER. My inabi...
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Good Cheer GaloreI enjoy watching TV dramas. I have noticed that every time someone describes a potential mate, that person is routinely characterized, among other attributes, as funny. From my experience at least, as a child and as an adult whose de...
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GraceWhile I was waiting for my wife to join me at the Hawaii Theater, I saw a matronly middle-aged woman slightly limping across from me. Before she would be out of sight, I, perhaps indiscreetly, blurted out that I would be happy to walk on my own ...
schlomo 06-18-2025 12:18 PM
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ENGAGINGEvery day I am entranced (looking out from my lanai) to see configurations of white birds as they soar over the golf course and undulate toward the Koolau mountain range. Sometimes the birds en masse resemble a phalanx of warriors. At other m...
schlomo 06-11-2025 08:25 PM
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Only in Hawaii It is fairly standard to see homeless people dragging shopping carts on their respective journeys around town. But what I witnessed a few days ago while I was ensconced in my car was truly priceless. An oversized shopping cart adjacent...
schlomo 06-05-2025 11:43 AM
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CelebrateWhenever I go to the ER because of too much buildup of ammonia, I become delirious—at least that’s what my wife tells me, I however, don’t remember anything either about the calamitous onset at home or the continued havoc at the ER. My inabi...
schlomo 05-26-2025 12:46 PM
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Good Cheer GaloreI enjoy watching TV dramas. I have noticed that every time someone describes a potential mate, that person is routinely characterized, among other attributes, as funny. From my experience at least, as a child and as an adult whose de...
schlomo 05-26-2025 12:41 PM
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GraceWhile I was waiting for my wife to join me at the Hawaii Theater, I saw a matronly middle-aged woman slightly limping across from me. Before she would be out of sight, I, perhaps indiscreetly, blurted out that I would be happy to walk on my own ...
schlomo 06-18-2025 12:18 PM
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ENGAGINGEvery day I am entranced (looking out from my lanai) to see configurations of white birds as they soar over the golf course and undulate toward the Koolau mountain range. Sometimes the birds en masse resemble a phalanx of warriors. At other m...
schlomo 06-11-2025 08:25 PM
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Only in Hawaii It is fairly standard to see homeless people dragging shopping carts on their respective journeys around town. But what I witnessed a few days ago while I was ensconced in my car was truly priceless. An oversized shopping cart adjacent...
schlomo 06-05-2025 11:43 AM
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CelebrateWhenever I go to the ER because of too much buildup of ammonia, I become delirious—at least that’s what my wife tells me, I however, don’t remember anything either about the calamitous onset at home or the continued havoc at the ER. My inabi...
schlomo 05-26-2025 12:46 PM
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Good Cheer GaloreI enjoy watching TV dramas. I have noticed that every time someone describes a potential mate, that person is routinely characterized, among other attributes, as funny. From my experience at least, as a child and as an adult whose de...
schlomo 05-26-2025 12:41 PM
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