Thinking in Words, Selectively

The daily engagement of thoughts and ideas and the effort to sprint—often times correctly, sometimes incorrectly, and occasionally harmfully—to get something said first is a methodology I’m going to leave to others. Though I read a New York Times article recently (April 2013) about a dispute over ownership of the Empire State Building and conjured up a dialogue among King Kong, Deborah Kerr (“An Affair to Remember”), and Michael Bloomberg to prevent conversion of the observation deck to luxury condos that some might have enjoyed reading. Instead, it stayed, rightfully, in my head.

What’s “on my mind” does involve current matters, sometimes provoked by news articles about cultural and generational changes that I’ll post with comment. The book review I wrote—“The Lawyer, Louis D. Brandeis, A Life,” which is posted below as a pdf—is more reflective of what I intend; hoping to provoke dialogue not as lament about what used to be but about what could and should be, not just as public policy or law but as personal and cultural imperative. I also expect to post brief essays about other matters, movies and movie directors, the occasional adventure and, most likely, anecdotal observations or insights into characters or settings I chose to create in my novel or have examined in my other work.