Jupiter lighthouse
Lynne and I got married right under the big tree.
Grizzly encounter
This is from our trip to Alaska. A real grizzly encounter. Luckily I had my video camera on!
(format is Flash. You might need to right-click and go to “play” to play the movie)
Wit
Benjamin Disraeli, England’s Prime Minister in the late 1800’s was known for his quick wit. One day, the King decided to put him to the test in front of all the other ministers. “I understand, Mr. Disraeli,” he said, “that you can make a pun on any subject. Please, make a pun about me.”
While all [...]
Portrait of my mother as a butterfly
This is the second anniversary of my mother’s passing. I miss you, Mom.
Here’s what the rabbi said at her funeral:
Eleonor Roman was born in Austria-Hungary in 1915 in the small village of Vrbovce (VR-BOV-TSEH). She met her husband, Paul, while visiting her brother’s scout camp, and their encounter evolved into a beautiful romance. They married [...]
If you want to build a ship
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood
and don’t assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
— Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Dump
When I was about six, we moved into what I recognize now as a temporary low-rent high-rise apartment in the D.C. area. We shared a blinking black and white TV with others in the musty, ragged-carpeted lobby, we walked up dark stairwells to our place, and I slept on a roll-away bed in [...]
Wise as serpents
“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”
Matthew 10:16
