Author Archives: Naomi

How crazy is Trump? This crazy…

The first thing I do when I get up is open my digital edition of the New York Times and read it while drinking my coffee. For a while now, the Times has provided me with a headline regarding something … Continue reading

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The Cancel Culture War: Stalin v. Trump.

Last week I was at Lincoln Center for a superb all-Shostakovich chamber music program. Whenever I listen to Shosti (my nickname, regrets, easier to type), I check to see when he composed each work. Was it BS or AS? Or, … Continue reading

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A intense dialogue overheard on the Upper West Side

Outside a local elementary school, a very tall father and a very little boy, maybe four years old, were engaged in an exchange. The little boy was objecting passionately to moving onward because someone or something which he expected to … Continue reading

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