Category Archives: Fire This Time

How I Got So Lucky: A True Quaker Christmas Story

One: Brooklyn, December 1967 I knew it was going to be a long day when I saw the woman having an epileptic seizure in the Intake room. She was on her back, eyes rolling, jerking and thrashing, head thumping on the cement floor. A Welfare Department security guard ran over and straddled her, trying to … Continue reading How I Got So Lucky: A True Quaker Christmas Story →

A Memory with a Multiple Mission

The Election Is over For Biden; the Pandemic is not

Eric Trump was one who sneered at the pandemic in late Spring, and said media attention to it was no more than a Democratic Party campaign ploy. As reported in Forbes (a respected, business-oriented journal): During an interview with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro on “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” Eric Trump, the son of President … Continue reading The Election Is over For Biden; the Pandemic is not →

Cheer Up, Fer Pity Sake!

Reading this morning’s comments from my Facebook friends, you’d think the election was a landslide win for the other guy: so much gloom, doom, depression & lament. To which I feel obliged to reply sternly: Friends — GET A GRIP. Sure, I didn’t get everything I wanted from the election results; not even close. But … Continue reading Cheer Up, Fer Pity Sake! →