Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


The Escape Artist

“The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World”: https://amzn.to/3IiORqL The reason this book is so good is because it describes, in detail, day to day life in the concentration camp, i.e., Auschwitz. You know I rarely read nonfiction. And I was regretting my choice until Walter Rosenberg was shipped […]

Today’s News

“Ticketmaster’s Dark History – A 40 year saga of kickbacks, threats, political maneuvering, and the humiliation of Pearl Jam”: https://bit.ly/3Wf2ICE This is what happens when reporters tell a story. They may get the facts right but they miss the essence. And not all the facts are right. This is a tale from thirty years ago, […]

Being Sick

1 I lost my voice. I don’t remember having laryngitis since the sixties. It was illegal to be sick growing up in my house. You see my mother’s mother was a hypochondriac and as a result if we had a sniffle we went to school and we did not go to the doctor unless we […]

A Note From The Front

1 I’ve been sick as a dog. And there’s nothing worse than being unable to ski whilst at a ski area. I could check myself, apologize somehow, for not only being in Vail but choosing to ski at all, but that’s exactly the point. You think everybody is watching, you think everybody cares, when in […]