Hello,
This is my first blog. I've been thinking about doing something like this for many years, but I've always found excuses. Among them: I'm not too comfortable with high technology (never took a programming class, for example); I'm a late bloomer; the plants needed watering.
But now that I have more time on my hands than I want, having been laid off from the job I held for the past ten years, all my excuses are gone.
I'm not sure yet what this blog will center on. Perhaps like many new blogs, it will serve as a forum for whatever is buzzing around my brain at the moment. Such as how to cope psychologically with being laid off after a certain age. Or what it was like growing up in Borough Park, Brooklyn, during the 1950s.
Most likely future subjects will include politics and economics; journalism (especially responses to columnists); food (everybody in my family of four is a foodie); and books.
So let's start with the latter. The three most important books I have read in the past few years are Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America; Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation; and John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. That should give some sense of my political leanings.
More on this tomorrow. Or next week. See you all then.
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Hi dad,
I read your blog and I can't wait to read your next posting. As the daughter of a born and bred New Yorker and being one myself, I would be interested in hearing some of your thoughts on grownig up in Burough Park, Brooklyn. I can't imagine the changes you must see and feel from NY when you were a kid to now. Though I have only lived in New York for 21 years and have been conscience of New York since maybe age 4, I have noticed the city changing and it makes me sad. Old time establishments getting kicked out because of the high rents, bank chains and boutiques opening up everywhere; I can see the city becoming homogenous. It has become too expensive for diversity, both economic and social. Being politically oriented au gauche, I think you could offer some good insight or at least personal reflections on our changing city. I am sure I will hear about it from you over the dinner table, but I want to read it online too. Till next time...
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