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I practiced law actively for some 25 years and remain a member of The Bar. As a lifelong devotee of the study of the English language and etymology, most of the contract-writing in our firm was passed to me. Frankly, I have always enjoyed writing agreements, and I have continued to do so for my […]
“Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance A very bright physisist once bragged, “I don’t shade my eyes; I plagarize.” Then, the Irish-Brit, John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971), a pioneer of molecular biology, coined his humorously infamous indictment of human-jealousy, now known as “Bernal’s Ladder”, which pricelessly proclaimed […]
THE WATERGATE RHYMES By Lee Lovett The Watergate Rhymes offers an entertaining history lesson on the infamous Watergate Scandal that led to the resignation of then President Richard Nixon, and it does so in approximately 100 pages of metered, rhymed poetry, written in the satirical style of the late humorist, Ogden Nash. The entire affair […]
This cloudy day, I am thirty-nine; And seems little for which I have time. Life has been a series of flashes, Each igniting others to ashes; Strident torrents of experience Leave me in chaotic circumstance; Confusion an “future shock” cause haze And staccato thoughts in a grey maze. Youthful values have been uprooted By an […]
A CHILD’S PERSPECTIVE [Caveat: All of my observations, or essays, however dubbed, are simply reflections on lessons that life has taught me, which I here pass along to my loved ones and to any others who choose to read them. I make no claim to prescience or wisdom; I simply wish to share what has […]
That pets enrich our lives is axiomatic. Psychiatric studies have demonstrated that being loving to our pets, the act of petting them, and the overt actions of caring for them, lower our blood pressure and enhance our emotional stability. Teaching children to be kind to animals would not only make infinitely more kind and […]
[Caveat: All of my observations, or essays, however dubbed, are simply reflections on lessons that life has taught me, which I here pass along to my loved ones and to any others who choose to read them. I make no claim to prescience, wisdom. They’re simply thoughts based on many observations.] Few things, about the […]
Earl P. (“Coach Whitey”) Schubert By One of His Ballplayers This writing is dedicated to someone in particular, and, for those of you who did not know him, that’s not the message here. The message speaks to all Teachers to Remember, what they did and why we shall remember them — and, perhaps, why, should […]
[Caveat: All of my observations, or essays, however dubbed, are simply reflections on lessons that life has taught me, which I now pass along to my loved ones and to any others who choose to read them. I make no claim to prescience, wisdom or mastery of any of these life-lessons. They simply reflect ruminations […]
[Caveat: All of my observations, or essays, however dubbed, are simply reflections on lessons that life has taught me, which I here pass along to my loved ones and to any others who choose to read them. I make no claim to prescience, wisdom or mastery of any of these life-lessons. They simply reflect observations […]