I just finished reading “Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates” by Brian Kilmeade and  DanYaeger.  A very good read about the war against the pirates of the Barbary Coast and the birth of the US navy and marines. Hence the words to the marine corps song. “..,to the shores of Tripoli."

Sometimes you have to let go of old things to make room for the new. It can be good to shake things up, change the order of things, take a new path.  

  I didn't watch most of the Oscars Sunday night, although it was on in the background for a while. I happened to sit down for the very end, just as Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty were walking on stage to present the Best Picture award. I was really taken by Faye Dunaway's dress.    

The first placed I lived on my own was  Brooklyn Heights. Since the  law firm where I was working was also in the Heights many of us who worked together also lived close to one another.  

Today’s New York Times, included an insert, “Truth. It’s more important now than ever.” How true!  

Here's a real life story...think about who's on what side when you read this.  

One of the driving forces in my life was the lack of direct praise I received from my father.  Yes, his friends told me how proud he was of me, but it was a hollow substitute.   As a result I was determined to share my ample pride with my sons and I think I did a far better job than my dad.   I am so proud of them! That gets me to Chris Wallace of Fox. If only his dad, the famous 60 Minutes out spoken reporter Mike Wallace, were alive to hear his son proclaim "You don't get to tell us what to do".

At first, I thought that the photograph on the front page of yesterday's Wall Street Journal was historical. As a child of Holocaust survivors, I have seen many pictures of gravestones toppled at Jewish cemeteries in Europe during the 1930's.