"Why are you crying, son?" asked the gray-haired gentleman when he came upon a little boy in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square. It was mid-April, flowers all abloom, weather perfect. The young boy was no more than five years old. He looked pitiful, with large dewdrops dripping from both eyes and his nose sniffling. His T-shirt was [...]
Dollhouse furnished by my 12-year-old granddaughter. Why dismantle it? It’s still my life. It’s the holiday season; Christmas, Hanukkah and the New Year are around the corner. It’s time to party with family and friends, to appreciate what we have, to celebrate life. I don’t take life for granted; for me, life’s [...]
We believe in the linear concept of time. We look back at the past and ahead at the future, sometimes so much so that the ever-present now slips by unnoticed. Alien-like landscape captured through my lens on last year's trip to Iceland I saw Arrival recently, a movie about aliens who landed [...]
I’m aghast at Trump’s election victory, as are virtually all my friends, for reasons that have been listed over and over in editorials and private conversations. There’s no point in reiterating them. An email I just received from a long-time friend said, “I’m devastated and in mourning after Nov. 8. Am ashamed and embarrassed to [...]
The cliché, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, creates a conundrum. You go to a bookstore (no, not surfing Amazon) and pick up a book with an appealing mountain scene on the cover. It looks interesting since you are a naturalist and love to camp. You’ve never heard of the author. You compare [...]
Last night I saw Aquarius, a Brazilian-French film about an elderly lady, Clara, who wouldn’t sell her apartment to developers, even though every other apartment in the building had been sold. There were no occupants left and the building was decaying. The developers tried every trick to get her out, but she stood firm. She [...]
