This blog shall begin with a wisdom from my birthday book; It’s Gonna Be Okay. “Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well,…
Today is June 4, 2017, it is now 8:17 and I have already had at least three rather profound conversations, and one trivial one. Trivial one first. Me: Where were you? I had to ask E.H.B…
Triple S.’s birthday book supplies this from Garrison Keillor: “I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.” It seemed the perfect quote as I awoke feeling totally discombobulated. The definition first…
I received an email from a dear friend who has been in my life for about fifty years. He wrote: “You get wittier and wittier as time goes by. Don’t lose your humor and quick…
I popped down to the lobby for my morning ritual of blog writing to find Thesaurus (aka Triple C.) had taken the day off which is fine, every once in a while, but he had…
As many of you may know I now write the blog in the lobby of the Trump International Hotel. This is for many reasons – the main being Thesaurus (in the person of Triple C.)…
I slept in this morning (well for me slept in). I awoke at 7:30, opened the drapes and said: “What the hell!” The open drapes revealed a sight for sore eyes. It is cloudy and…
I awoke this birthday morning to a beautiful day on the nineteenth floor of the Trump International Hotel. The view is stunning, the sun is shining. I feel blessed and no one could ask for…
As you may have noticed real live people that appear on the blog regularly have nicknames. I suppose that Triple C. was the first, but then there has been a steady accumulation. The Emperor and…
This is an excerpt from the yet unfinished book. It was written on my 73rd birthday. At the time I was living in London, England on Coptic Street near the British Museum. I awoke, and…