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  I made myself a Dick Magrath Martini last night. I did this for three reasons: I did not have the ingredients for a “regular” martini and over the course of the last few days, I had been thinking about … Continue reading →

I am in a scene from Goodfella’s. It is 2am and I am in my car outside a warehouse in Queens. The weather has cooperated with the movie like setting with a soft fog and gentle mist. There is the … Continue reading →

  The backyard of my parents’ home is back lit by the setting sun. The oaks, elms, and evergreens and even the lawn seem to glow a yellowish orange, as if they are working overtime to catch every bit of … Continue reading →

  My parent’s yard was much bigger when I was a child but it is still plenty big enough for my dog Yankee to tear across the front lawn doing his version of a NASCAR race. He runs around me … Continue reading →

  It is early afternoon on Thursday July 12, 2012. It is a hot humid summer’s day. The type of day weather forecasters like to warn you to drink plenty of fluids, put on copious amounts of sunscreen, and not … Continue reading →

  Last night I dreamt I was at “big” Kings on old Rt. 24 in Short Hills. It is a supermarket that I know so well that I can put together a shopping list on an aisle by aisle basis. … Continue reading →

Mark Twain was fond of saying “There are three types of lies. Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” I was thinking about that particular quote while reading The New York Times this morning. I had just read an article by  Michael … Continue reading →

  The sign above the gate read “Arbeit Mach Frei.” It was May 12, 2011 and I found myself literally staring at the gates of hell. The entrance to the most notorious of all the Nazi Death Camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau. Being … Continue reading →

  After processing at Ellis Island, they were greeted at the New York City docks by Marcus’s brother Max in his new 1939 Cadillac Fleetwood. I am sure there was a lot of back slapping and hugging involved in that … Continue reading →

  The new family settled into a small apartment at 48 Ottokringerstrasse. The apartment had only two rooms. A kitchen that had no refrigerator except for the ledge outside the window and also doubled as a bedroom for Ernst and … Continue reading →