I recently read a novel called Fools Crow, written by James Welch in the mid-80s. I cannot recommend it highly enough. In the book, Welch tells the story of a young man who is a member of the Lone Eaters, a band of Blackfeet (called Pikuni in the book) in Montana territory some time between …
Mobile home park ownership makes for strange bedfellows. I dislike the three Supremes who were rammed through during the Trump administration. Gorsuch is taking up space where Merrick Garland belongs. Kavanaugh is a drunk who can’t stand up under cross examination. ACB is brilliant but crazy, with scary views on reproductive rights, religion and gun …
When I was driving in northern Maine recently, a maiden aunt who lives in Maine whom I see only on Thanksgivings, weddings and funerals called me. Looking at the caller ID, I emitted a low groan and let it ring. I was listening to a podcast that interested me, and did not want to be …
I understand that readers have had trouble clicking on the link to the content for this post. Not trouble clicking on it so much as recognizing that blue text denotes a link, and that links are there to be clicked. This post is about a commentary published in the Albany (NY) Times Union on August …
Jack Welch divided the universe of workers in any organization along two axes, each comprising a binary on-off feature, i.e. competent/incompetent and drinks-the-Kool-Aid/doesn’t-drink-the-Kool-Aid (he did not say “drinks the Kool Aid”, because he had a vested interest in having people drink his Kool Aid. He said “With the program”. A less weighted formulation would be …
Once, there were a couple of socially deviant porpoises, but “socially deviant” doesn’t begin to describe it. A non-exhaustive list of the type of stuff they got up to would include: Bestiality; Coprophagia; Simony; Gratuitous use of the f-word. They spent most of their time in Manhattan, but they also hung out in the outer …
Fitzgerald said that the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. Here are some things that the help desk for the New York State Emergency Rental Assistance Program (“ERAP”) have told me – sometimes during …
When our second child went through an amphibian phase, we rescued a bullfrog to keep as a pet. Instead of going to the animal shelter and picking out a dog, we went to the Great Wall Supermarket on Northern Boulevard. Near the front door, next to the tanks of fish, the tubs of crabs and …
I have written about the New York Emergency Rental Assistance Program, or ERAP, before. It is the program through which New York State is trying to distribute the funds allocated therefor by the federal government under the December, 2020 and March, 2021 COVID relief bills. Funds given to New York are being distributed by the …
Subject: My Job So – I’m being replaced? That’s an email that I received two days ago from J.B., the maintenance guy at my park in central New York. He had seen an ad that I had placed on Craigslist, looking for a maintenance guy. Of course, I did not mention the park by name …