Monthly Archive: December 2022
Longtime News Broadcaster Barbara Walters Dies at 93
A staple for TV broadcast news for most of the format’s existence, and the standard for one-on-one interviews, Barbara Walters has died at the age of 93.
The World Is Yours, Or At Least The Size of It Is
For all the debate, discussion, and derision social media gets for good, bad, and admittedly sometimes truly ugly, it is a tool.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Three Person Chess
I played my first game of three-person chess and have thoughts about it.
POETS Day! It’s Yeats Again!
Yeats wondered how the world could recover from a World War that drowned its innocence…but we survived. The center held.
Grief and Gratitude
I spent Thanksgiving—then Christmas—in the company of my family, forced almost against my will to love and be loved. And it was marvelous.
2022: The Year in Science
Just to put it all in one place, so we can appreciate how much happened this year, here are the ten biggest science stories of the year.
The Best To You Each Morning: The Cereal In America Story
The inclusion of a bowl of cereal doused with milk in the breakfast ritual as practiced in the West is of relatively recent vintage.
Supreme Court Upholds Title 42 Border Policy: Read It For Yourself
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court granted the request of 19 State Attorneys Generals request to keep the Title 42 Border Policy in place.
My Top 25 Films Of 2022: One Critic’s Best Of The Year List
We’re talking about top 25 films of 2022 that stood out from a field of nearly three hundred that I watched
Boxing Day Recipe: Lamb Stuffed Cabbage Rolls In Tomato Sauce
The following recipe for lamb stuffed cabbage rolls in tomato sauce is one of those. Takes 30 minutes out of your non-pressed Boxing Day
Christmas Morning! “The Tenants of Moonbloom” by Edward Lewis Wallant
A rollicking posthumous novel with a very Jewish punchline for its parable: Yes, everyone is kind of a schmuck. But we’re required to love them anyway. And isn’t that funny?
