Lacunae Musing

Fifty years ago.   Can it be?    There are few moments of our lives that are indelibly etched in our memories.   9/11 was such a day . ...

What better way of ringing in the New Year than writing about the past? In my case, there is much more of that than the future. Sounds lik...

People our age remember certain moments with such clarity they seem like yesterday. Noon, November 22, 1963 was such a moment as I was pass...

It is Memorial Day weekend, one of profound sadness, for the service men and women who gave their lives for our country, and now what seems ...

I am an early riser so was able to see President Obama’s entire speech today as he delivered it at Cairo University. If a main criterion of ...

9/11. It has been seven years but it seems like yesterday. We all remember where we were at that moment. The only comparable moment in my ...

It is that time of the year – political demagoguery to seek the presidential nomination. No wonder it is easy to become inured to politics....