Month: August 2012

  • WHILE I AM HERE

    This is a two part essay.  In the beginning it refers to While I am Here.  Finally, there is a comment about When I am Gone. Within a month my 90th birthday will occur. I do not look forward to it with a sense of exhilaration nor do I look forward to that event with…

  • TOO SOON OLD…

    For the past 12 or 15 years, I have been a friend of Gregorio Russo.  Gregorio works in the produce department of the Whole Foods Market.  In the former location of the Whole Foods Market, he was the first person who came into view as you entered the market.  Now that market has moved to…

  • Blog: Thoughts on the RNC

    [NOTE: This is a blog, not an essay. The difference between the two is that essays are planned at length, dictated, given to Eva Baker for transcription, and then finally re-edited and mailed out to all his friends and regular readers in hard-copy.  This, conversely is just some thoughts on yesterday’s Republican National Convention that…

  • THE INSTINCTS OF THE HERD

    [NOTE: I’m breaking form and publishing order here because I felt this essay serves as a nice introduction to Pop’s thoughts on the Republican National Convention. This essay is almost exactly 1 year old; the message is still relevant. Hopefully this is not confusing. -Kevin]   Under ordinary circumstances, I am not involved with Republican…

  • KNIVES, EVERYDAY AND SUNDAY

    In this essay I am going to be talking only about pocket knives, as distinguish from knives that are meant to kill.  I suspect that this again is an exercise in nostalgia. Looking back more than 70 or 75 years ago, there was a custom having to do with knives.  My father, for example, would…

  • CHARLES H. AND LITTLE AUGUST

    Over the years I have introduced you, my readers, to the various members of my family.  In total, there were eight children.  Martha and Ruth, born in 1920 and 1924, were probably stillbirths.  That was a subject that the children were never encouraged to ask about.  Also in 1924 there was the death of my…

  • SATAN

    At the moment, we are concerned – or at least the Republicans are concerned – with the outcome of the presidential nominating process.  The early leaders in the Republican primary contest have largely dropped out, leaving only four people.  There is the favorite, Mitt Romney.  He is being challenged closely by Rick Santorum.  Then we…

  • GOD IS A REPUBLICAN

    I have never been known for clear thinking on ecclesiastical matters.  As a matter of fact, I am perhaps the last one to catch on to the fact that God is a Republican.  I could have deduced that from my own reasoning, but a cloud of uncertainty hung over my identifying the Republican Party and…

  • THE POPE’S BUTLER

    Those of you who follow the news from abroad or, more specifically, from Vatican City may be aware that the Pope’s butler is in a heap of trouble. Apparently the Pope’s butler, who has access to the body of His Holiness, was alleged to be the person who has leaked salacious gossip to the Italian…

  • VATICAN LULLABIES

    The title of this essay suggests that it will be about the Catholic Church.  At the outset, it should be stated that the author of this essay, who is also the editor of Ezra’s Essays, is not a Catholic and has no intention of becoming one in the near future.  But in this essay, I…