I had a laser procedure on my eye last week. My son asked me afterwards if I had Superman vision. You would think he is seven or eight. He is twenty three. Boys will be boys.Naturally as a little boy I always wanted to be Superman. I would put on my long pajamas and then slip over them a pair of underwear. I didn't have red ones like the real Supe …
"This Negro player may be a Communist," the director continued, sitting in the car. "And I suspect your brother too. Both of them. You know how I feel about that." "I don't know about those sorts of things," Johnny answered. "I don't pay much attention to politics." Mr. Hoover remarked that Johnny looked tense and nervous, not relaxed as he had …
The car drove up to the curb on West 145th Street off Lenox Avenue and Johnny Washington opened the door and stepped out into a puddle. He pulled his coat over his hat and trotted through the slanting rain to the awning over the front door of El Morocco. A white suited gentlemen put his arm out to block him. "It's OK," another said, "the bos …
The New York Times has a story on the first page of the Travel section today on "The 46 Places to Go in 2013." I like these types of stories, like SKI magazine's list of best new places to ski, so I took at look at the list. I am not sure why they came up with only 46 places, or stopped there. Maybe they ran out of ideas, or just ran out of spac …
We had a baby. My daughter Hilary the principal gave birth to a little girl on December 30th. Beth Scarlett Cymrot was born on 12-30 at 12:30 pm, weighing a petite 5 lbs 14 oz. I have never seen so small a baby. And so cute and sweet. Being the first grandchild, the start of the next generation, this was new turf. Thinking of my child as a …
News cycles bring tiresome phrases. Like "fiscal cliff." That is a big one lately. Whoever came up with that must be getting big royalties, which is not good for him if we go over that cliff because that means he will owe big taxes come January 1.We all remember Y2K. Ugh did I get tired of hearing about Y2K. I think that was even bigger than the fi …
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