Basset Hounds
I grew up with Basset Hounds. Sweet stinky clowns. Needed baths, practically daily! Jackie Cooper, a former child actor, starred in a black and white 1950s sitcom called The Peoples’ Choice. It featured his pet Cleo, a talking basset hound, who commented on the goings on. Every time a popular show has a purebred pet […]
Save Bat Habitats
Jim Garrison
Here is a story I never thought I would write. A friend is a writer/editor. She has read some of my stories and said I should create a fictional character and drape my life on him. She said a memoir only works if you have interacted with famous people. With Oliver Stone’s biopic of […]
Travels with Phil Eight – Yonah Schimmel’s Knishery – New York City
Being a New York Jew, one of the foods you eat with your mother’s milk is a potato knish. (A client from Chicago named her cute little Labrador mix Knish.) A very thin pastry filled with tasty seasoned mashed potatoes. The BEST knish in the universe is at Yonah Schimmel’s Knishery, conveniently located on Houston […]
Travels with Phil Seven– Sarge’s Deli – New York City
In midtown on Third Avenue not far below 42nd Street is Sarge’s Deli. There are many more famous names in NYC restaurants, but NONE are a more classic NY deli nor BETTER than Sarge’s. They even have whole boiled cow tongues in their deli cases. What more could you ask for? Go there! […]
When Your Monarch Caterpillars Have Eaten Themselves Out Of House and Home
I had unbelievable success in attracting Monarch Moms after planting milkweeds. In no time at all though the little bastards had stripped every leaf off the four plants. So I went to the nursery and bought four more. Then the coolest thing happened: for the first time in my life I saw a Monarch Mom […]
Bidens Alba is forage for honeybees
Let it grow. Do NOT “weed” it out of your yard!
Is the Monarch Butterfly Yet Another Canary in the Coal Mine?
I said it would be a bit before I wrote another post. But three weeks ago I saved the article linked here from the New York Times, that the Monarch had been added to the Endangered Species list. You will be shocked and disturbed (I hope) to read the decline in the population of the […]
We need to take a hiatus for a bit now
When I started this site almost three months ago, I had no idea how much work even writing the short posts would take. There have been over 75 posts now. I already have notes for over 32 more posts already. I think we’ve done well, sharing interesting times and even valuable information. But I do […]
Cofounding the Amnesty International Chapter in Miami and the Death Penalty
I met Nita Manitzas in the late 1970s. I have searched my records and cannot find anything to help me remember how we met. I do know it led to a very important change in my ethical, moral and political philosophy. Nita was a scholar of contemporary Latin American politics. I could not find anything […]