In the summer of 2002, Ann and I were in Sevilla, walking back to our lodging after a typically late dinner. It was midnight, but the twisty, cobbled lanes were not entirely deserted. As we entered a three-way street junction, lit only by a few faraway home lights, two young men on a motor scooter [...]
Category Archives: Humor
A Singular Eating Experience
February 26, 2008 – 4:09 pm
Several years ago my brothers (Lanny and Doug) and I were on Long Island where Doug, a well-known performer of modern Jewish music, had a concert scheduled. The show was set for 7:30 p.m., with a sound check an hour earlier, but it was just 4:45 and Doug was hungry. Because a full stomach does [...]
Ellis Island Vignette
February 23, 2008 – 8:12 am
Freedom-and-a-New-Life So here’s how the story goes, as told to me by my Uncle Max (long-deceased). Somewhere in the late 1890s (I could be off by ten years), a man by the name of Tudrus Zlutchin (another branch of the family claims that the surname was Dudek) landed at Ellis Island from Russia with his [...]
Bear Market Rap
February 13, 2008 – 7:14 am
In December 1990, when I was working as an investment banker in San Francisco, I wrote and recorded a rap song.
