My book on New York City Paramedics in the Time of AIDS, tentatively titled The Sea of Peroxide, has exceeded 88,000 words and includes interviews with 25 paramedics and EMTs of my era. My agent, Janet Reid, has agreed to read it. I believe it is worthy of publishing. At this time, I have two … Read more
Where Did You Come From? It was more than three years ago when the small tortoise shell cat first appeared in our backyard. She was with another cat who has since disappeared. She was skittish, would not be touched, and got spooked by most anything. Her left ear was “tipped,” meaning that at some point … Read more
The world has largely abandoned Junius A. Kellogg; the world of sports, his college, wheelchair basketball, New York City, the media and for the most part, the nonprofits he supported throughout his life. Oddly perhaps, I have never forgotten him and as long as I walk this earth, I will never abandon him. As Bob … Read more
The sweep of the movie Forrest Gump is largely reflective of the events of my life. As with Forrest Gump’s friend Bubba, my best friend, whose name was John Roberts died in combat in Vietnam. In the fictionalized book, on Forrest Gump’s life, Bubba died in 1967. John was killed in 1970. Bubba and John … Read more
Somewhere in the Sea of Faces The picture I have posted was taken around 1907. They are European Jews fleeing the oppression of the Russian Pale. One of the girls may be my grandmother who immigrated to this nation from the rather flexible border between Poland and Russia. She may have been from an area … Read more
