When I finally returned to South Beach a few nights ago, I sensed I would do this town differently and that I did.

After talking to many who I know here, many more than in NYC, I ended up on a rock on Lincoln Road, talking to a man named… Read full post »

What you had no  way of knowing, nor did I in entirety, I wrote those while I was undergoing a new drug for type 1 diabetes. I was in extreme excruciasting pain and day before yesterday I  almost died.

This drug is called Victoza and when it works it really… Read full post »

I ran back to Miranda. At that very moment, the boy decided that my daughter was guilty and before we knew it he was calling the local police to come and get her.

Here she lost her cool, started sobbing as I promised her I’d be with her every step of… Read full post »

Pt 1 of 3

My daughter's Arrest:

This story starts during a walk from the Breakers a hotel, not as fancy as you may think, to Worth Avenue, obscenely so, a few miles away.

My daughter, then sixteen, hopped a cab. I remember that I had earphones on and… Read full post »

Two posts in one day, rare. I sit here thinking of Emily's open call. When were you arrested?

I was not precisely arrested. Instead, I was taken four hours by ambulance to a hospital in mid -Florida, in the town of Port St Lucie , which has since been hit by several hurricanes. Of… Read full post »

                           DR BALA

I am really going to try to make this short. Short= not my middle name. I won't tell you of AL's amazing visit, two w… Read full post »

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These are two of the same songs by Paco Ortego that was the centerpiece in an Argentine film with the incomparable Norma Aleadro...

I recommend the second link, should it work but f… Read full post »

This is written in the spirit of  life as theater of the absurd--hoping no one takes this as morbid. 

I wrote Vivian who I hope is happily asleep--asking for her permission to use her name but then my computer listed the errors entailed (legion) so I'm assuming she is okay with… Read full post »

I think of so many here often, but true too, I've not been here for many reasons: computer hell, going to India but the Consulate seriously f'ed up so I just got my visa and passport today. Two weeks late, during which I was trying to finish my book on "The… Read full post »

This is for anyone else who I worried or was worrie3d about him. GREAT NEWS!!!

 PS: I have a knot in my belly for I just realized I have seen no posts from the great, the only Monsieur Chariot. Of course, not to be alarmist as he might have simply taken a break. But with internet friendships i sometimes get worried about a dear friend. Anyone????… Read full post »

It's 4 Am not the best time to write anything. But I did a long meditation the three days before this year and wow my life is so altered.

I met a sympatico woman, both of us big readers. We just clicked and she invited me to India in late March. We've had a happy… Read full post »

I just posted something I free wrote weeks ago. I've just stopped crying over Jean and for now, if not for long, stopped sobbing.

On Dec 29th after I returned to South Beach to find my internet ripped out and gone, I meditated. I who am an intellectual if that means reading a… Read full post »

I wrote a labored post without the Control C and given my state of mind, impossible to duplicate. Do not even remember what I named it.

This will be much shorter.

I have as I hope we all do, a circle of friends. Those who know others whom we love. It's not… Read full post »

Hi guys. You may remember or not that I broke a finger here in Maui Hawaii well the upside of this is that I met a young man who is a computer genius and I do not say that lightly there are very few of them and he is taught me… Read full post »

I used to love travel because it turned me on my ear, so to speak. Now, with computers, that is less true. I do take a computer wherever I go, and that seems to mean that every place is some same version of my same self.

I have had a painful… Read full post »

 Here's a book review, pretty great, I wrote in 1995. For "We've Had One Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World is Gettting Worse"

 James Hillman was since 1972 my mentor and finally my friend. He died two nights ago. So I am without being present for SO long, copying a… Read full post »

I have too many illnesses to bear. I am sick in my body and also therefore my soul. I hate being negative but how else to be truthful? I love so many here and yet have been offline due to illnesses of all sorts for almost a month, or feels like… Read full post »

Sorry I haven't read anyone this last week. I have had all manner of stomach problems which truly I rarely to never have, but it's what killed Eddie and what he hurt from during his last week.

Stranger things have happened, of course, but I am in his pain, no doubt… Read full post »

Prelude: This is an article I wrote during those years when I would escape to the Middle East and then have to leave a small journalist meeting with Bill Clinton to keep my word and get home by 3Pm the next day. Talk about the work/child schism. I… Read full post »

                                The Crazed Psychiatrist

When Miranda came home from the hospital, day 1, she did not look like the nurses had repo… Read full post »

I mentioned recently that unlike in days of yore, wherever I go there I am. Or to put it more concretely, wherever I go,  there the computers are.  Before long I am tinkering with one or the other,  getting nowhere fast. It's my daily nightmare.

For the last two days I spent… Read full post »

  My legal residence is in Florida but every year I find a cheaper rental in NYC because... it's my home too. I cannot be here more than five months a year or I lose Florida which has benefits.

 Night Time is best

I just came to my new rental. I picked… Read full post »

Dear friends, I made a big mistake with my Summing Up post. I didn't realize it at the time. The whole point should have been about Eddie especially because he has some hilarious videos. I tried to add them and change the text to reflect the new focus.

 This time it's… Read full post »