I must be feeling better because last night was the first time ina long time that I can remember having an early morning dream. Lately, for perhaps the last month, I have been consistently waking an hour too early and trying to make up for it by pretending I was fully awake, sometimes going so far as to brush my teeth and then going back to bed to ( Read more... )

I've discussed the fact that I have certain recurring themes in my dreams: The return to childhood places and touchstones; the search for something that has been left behind. They are usually rooted in a very keen sense of geography. Many take place in Queens where I spent my adolescence. Just as many take place in southern Virginia and North ( Read more... )

I got a two-exclamation point (!!) text reply from Crosby this week, my first contact since the second Moonshot. I guess that means I'm still his Dutch Uncle. I got up without aid of an alarm clock this morning to feed the goldfish and put on a pot of coffee. I decided to go back to bed while it was brewing and while I was walking, I had this wild ( Read more... )

Well, it worked. It took some persistence, but, it worked. I had Anthony on social media long enough to extract what his plans were for the evening and he typed out the name of a synagogue in Greenwich Village where he would be helping celebrate Shabbat services. Then, with an air of finality, he typed that he was going "offline". By the time I ( Read more... )

The Rector's pre-party began to wind down with the crab cakes. There was a brief round of toasts with Johnny Apple making suitably droll remarks. But, by 7:00 Tiger and I were pretty much the only guests left. It was fun being back in the old house, scene of so many RSVP parties thrown by The Rector's predecessor. And, so many Bible studies classes ( Read more... )

Well, I was wondering when the other shoe would drop. Katharine Hepburn stopped by for a visitation about two weeks ago and i was wondering when I would hear from her long time partner -- Cary Grant? You thought I was going to say, Spencer Tracy, didn't you? No, it turns out that one of the most enduring friendships in Hollywood -- during their ( Read more... )