Monthly Archives: January 2014

Shmaltz Brewing Company, born in 1996 in California and born again in New York in 2013.  Who knew? All kinds of varieties, too, that you can check out on Wiki.  Among my favorites are Rejewvenator and Jewbelation.  But clearly my … Continue reading →

There’s Rita on your left, sitting in my favorite chair at Booktowne in Manasquan, where I may as well be high in the Himalayas immersed in anything on the printed page.  No Nooks just books, not that I disdain Kindles … Continue reading →

Art is back, with vocal chords in some sense of repair. How fitting it is that Artie ends his “Note to Younger Self” with the tongue-in-cheek advice that you’ll never find the right hat, and here he is in the … Continue reading →

Beats dwelling on an Eagles’ playoff loss …                            

There’s alot of science behind America’s Game as detailed by journalist Allen St. John, and a former engineering professor from Yale, Ainissa Ramirez.  But you don’t need a Ph.D. from Stanford as Ainissa holds to figure out that what we … Continue reading →

Hard to believe that a man who wrote a book about social contracts would abandon his four children to the life of uncertainty in an orphanage. More puzzling is that Jean Jacques Rousseau also wrote Emile, a fictitious book that … Continue reading →