"Though I get no more tired now than I did when I was younger, I take much longer to get un-tired afterwards." -C.S. Lewis Up well before the sun this morning, learning that 5:30 a.m. is about the only time there is no one on the sidewalks outside. Any earlier folks are staggering home from the bars (and into my hallway at 3:30 a.m.--lucky me!); any later and the people who make this City work are unlocking and setting up shop. Meanwhile my Facebook feed includes posts from b

"Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life." — Irving Berlin As usual, it's slow going here in the morning, with a knee that's still giving me fits, mostly in the dead of night when my foot hangs on the comforter and gives the knee a painful twist as I roll over. Hips hurt too. This bed is too damned soft. I guess I'm getting there myself. Last night sitting in my estate planning class, it occurred to me that I'm now making the transition from the "isn't this c

“But are there not many fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.” "But you cannot destroy them until they rebel?" "No," Robert Jordan said. "We cannot destroy them. But we can educate the people so that they will fear fascism and recognize it as it appears and combat it.” ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls Another sub-freezing day, maybe the tenth or so in a row. It makes from some gray, na

"Monday Monday, can't trust that day, Monday Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way Oh Monday morning, you gave me no warning of what was to be Oh Monday Monday, how you could leave and not take me." -John Phillips Sitting in silence watching the traffic slide by, on a balmy 22 degree Manhattan morning. I arrived here early Sunday evening, studied, talked to P for a few minutes, then after reading my book about the October Surprise, Den of Spies by Craig Unger, nodded