July 2021

The image of growing up in Brooklyn N.Y. in the 40’s and 50’s was sometimes difficult. On one hand you had a borough of small individual neighborhoods, for the most part a very safe place for kids to play, and grow up. On the other hand, there was this stigma attached if you admitted you […]

The pandemic has had a tremendous affect on the restaurant business throughout the world. Old establishes restaurants, have closed down. Newer ones, are cutting hours, and days of operation due to, food shortages, and lack of employees. I believe, the restaurant landscape has changed forever, sad to say. I started thinking about my experiences of

Last night I watched JAWS, my favorite shark movie. I usually watch it on July fourth. For me, one of the best scenes, is Robert Shaw’s wonderful monologue, about serving on the Indianapolis, which was not in the book. I understand Spielberg disliked the book, and made big story-line changes for the movie script. I

I’m watching a video of a Killer Whale attacking a sailboat in the Mediterranean Sea. There was also an article about young Killer Whales, attacking boats in the Med. There wasn’t any conclusive evidence why this is happening. Could it be due to climate change? I don’t know, as I’m writing this, while I’m awaiting