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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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 The FolliesWhile traveling on TheBus the other day, I was seated across from a couple of giggly, sleek young ladies. Just as the bus stopped at a light, these cutesy twenty-somethings began to simultaneously push at the rear exit door. It didn’t bud...
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What a Horror ShowThe other day in my condo’s parking lot, I was ready to wipe up some of the filth that had adhered to my Mazda (mostly grunge deposited by birds). At the same time, I was startled to hear a young man nearby grappling with his friend...
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Two HeroesAt one point while I was on the bus headed to another one of my routine doctor’s visits, a brigade of wheelchairs, walkers, and wagons slid up the lowered ramp and vainly tried to maneuver along the narrow bus aisle. A muscular father who w...
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 It’s the Little Things That Count Soon after I situated myself on the downtown bus that would take me to a doctor’s appointment, I saw a middle-aged disabled woman enter the bus and pay a dollar for the ride. When the bus driver told her that the ne...
schlomo 04-14-2024 12:14 PM
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A Teachable MomentToday, the Hawaii Symphony Associates, a quasi-PR organization that my wife and I joined a few years ago, conducted its monthly Q and A.Mid-way in the meeting, I noticed a very large unfamiliar woman who was seated opposite me at a ...
schlomo 04-03-2024 09:21 PM
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 The FolliesWhile traveling on TheBus the other day, I was seated across from a couple of giggly, sleek young ladies. Just as the bus stopped at a light, these cutesy twenty-somethings began to simultaneously push at the rear exit door. It didn’t bud...
schlomo 05-11-2024 11:50 AM
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What a Horror ShowThe other day in my condo’s parking lot, I was ready to wipe up some of the filth that had adhered to my Mazda (mostly grunge deposited by birds). At the same time, I was startled to hear a young man nearby grappling with his friend...
schlomo 04-28-2024 08:24 PM
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Two HeroesAt one point while I was on the bus headed to another one of my routine doctor’s visits, a brigade of wheelchairs, walkers, and wagons slid up the lowered ramp and vainly tried to maneuver along the narrow bus aisle. A muscular father who w...
schlomo 04-26-2024 06:21 PM
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 It’s the Little Things That Count Soon after I situated myself on the downtown bus that would take me to a doctor’s appointment, I saw a middle-aged disabled woman enter the bus and pay a dollar for the ride. When the bus driver told her that the ne...
schlomo 04-14-2024 12:14 PM
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A Teachable MomentToday, the Hawaii Symphony Associates, a quasi-PR organization that my wife and I joined a few years ago, conducted its monthly Q and A.Mid-way in the meeting, I noticed a very large unfamiliar woman who was seated opposite me at a ...
schlomo 04-03-2024 09:21 PM
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 The FolliesWhile traveling on TheBus the other day, I was seated across from a couple of giggly, sleek young ladies. Just as the bus stopped at a light, these cutesy twenty-somethings began to simultaneously push at the rear exit door. It didn’t bud...
schlomo 05-11-2024 11:50 AM
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What a Horror ShowThe other day in my condo’s parking lot, I was ready to wipe up some of the filth that had adhered to my Mazda (mostly grunge deposited by birds). At the same time, I was startled to hear a young man nearby grappling with his friend...
schlomo 04-28-2024 08:24 PM
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Two HeroesAt one point while I was on the bus headed to another one of my routine doctor’s visits, a brigade of wheelchairs, walkers, and wagons slid up the lowered ramp and vainly tried to maneuver along the narrow bus aisle. A muscular father who w...
schlomo 04-26-2024 06:21 PM
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 It’s the Little Things That Count Soon after I situated myself on the downtown bus that would take me to a doctor’s appointment, I saw a middle-aged disabled woman enter the bus and pay a dollar for the ride. When the bus driver told her that the ne...
schlomo 04-14-2024 12:14 PM
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A Teachable MomentToday, the Hawaii Symphony Associates, a quasi-PR organization that my wife and I joined a few years ago, conducted its monthly Q and A.Mid-way in the meeting, I noticed a very large unfamiliar woman who was seated opposite me at a ...
schlomo 04-03-2024 09:21 PM
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