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Tell us about yourself:
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
The Demon of UnawarenessWhile I was waiting to have my bi-weekly blood drawn at the diagnostic lab, I saw for the first time two framed photographic copies of Oahu mountain ridges on the wall to my left. One of these renditions was realistic; the ot...
Because of my severe hip arthritis, riding over bumps has been very painful. Usually, I rest my spine against the entire back of the front seat and experience intense discomfort accordingly. But for some inscrutable reason, last week during a long r...
It is comforting to have a delete button in my brain. Thankfully, I can’t remember many of the life-threatening medical crises that I have experienced over the past year, even when my wife gives me the details of my near demise and its aftermath.Bei...
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 ...
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...
The Demon of UnawarenessWhile I was waiting to have my bi-weekly blood drawn at the diagnostic lab, I saw for the first time two framed photographic copies of Oahu mountain ridges on the wall to my left. One of these renditions was realistic; the ot...
Because of my severe hip arthritis, riding over bumps has been very painful. Usually, I rest my spine against the entire back of the front seat and experience intense discomfort accordingly. But for some inscrutable reason, last week during a long r...
It is comforting to have a delete button in my brain. Thankfully, I can’t remember many of the life-threatening medical crises that I have experienced over the past year, even when my wife gives me the details of my near demise and its aftermath.Bei...
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 ...
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...
The Demon of UnawarenessWhile I was waiting to have my bi-weekly blood drawn at the diagnostic lab, I saw for the first time two framed photographic copies of Oahu mountain ridges on the wall to my left. One of these renditions was realistic; the ot...
Because of my severe hip arthritis, riding over bumps has been very painful. Usually, I rest my spine against the entire back of the front seat and experience intense discomfort accordingly. But for some inscrutable reason, last week during a long r...
It is comforting to have a delete button in my brain. Thankfully, I can’t remember many of the life-threatening medical crises that I have experienced over the past year, even when my wife gives me the details of my near demise and its aftermath.Bei...
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 ...
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...