If you have a place that you can call your hometown, no matter how good or bad it might be or might have have been, I consider you to be lucky, and I am jealous. I, unfortunately, don’t have such a place that I can …
Read MoreMasks or No Masks?
As a result of the requirement to wear masks nowadays, we tend to hear the words “freedom” and, to a lesser degree, “liberty” a lot, as these concepts are fundamental to what it supposedly means to be an American. However, as we hear these terms …
Read MoreMy Eulogy
One of the things that I notice as I get older, especially now with the threat of Covid-19, is I always look at the obituaries in the Newspaper looking for someone I might have known and at the ages of the deceased. Although there have …
Read MoreThe Sphere
On June 10, 2023, at 4:20 AM, a shimmering silvery sphere of about 200 feet diameter abruptly appeared out of nowhere and hovered above the Lincoln Reflecting Pool in the National Mall. The first people to see it were the few DC policemen patrolling the …
Read MoreCHANCE ENCOUNTER
On December 3rd, 1965, Larry Zelinsky and his best friend Arnold Weismann graduated from The University of California at Berkely. They both received Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Political Science and had applied and been accepted to attend law school at Stanford the following fall. …
Read MoreHOW I MET MY WIFE
In June 1961, I received my discharge from the Marine Corps and moved to Sacramento, where my parents were then living. The reason I chose to go to Sacramento was not that my parents were living there, but because of the super-hot girl, I had …
Read MoreWhy Do I Write?
The question of why do I write is especially significant to me as I am still astonished even today that I do write. If someone had told me only five years ago that I would regularly be writing and publishing novels, I would have been …
Read MoreRetiring From Florida to Colorado
My first exposure to Colorado was back in 1967 when my wife’s parents moved from Sacramento to Aurora, Colorado. Her father had just retired from the Air Force and was starting a new job as a navigator with United Airlines. At that time, my wife …
Read MoreLoss of Hearing
We humans have five basic physical senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. The organs associated with each of those senses send information to the brain to help us understand and perceive the world all around us. We also have other senses in addition to …
Read MoreAm I a Philosopher?
Recently an older gentleman (yes, even older than me) in my senior’s writers group, when it was his turn to read his writings, read us his views on the world’s problems and his sage advice on how we could make them better. Then to top …
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