We haven’t come so very farIn keeping Blacks on equal parAnd we are poorer for it. Perhaps it would be if we hadThings wouldn’t be so very badBecause of pent up emotion. They did not ask to come hereWhile subjected to awful fearResulting in others’ profit. Wronging them in every mannerWe […]
Ada Mark Strausberg
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Bad habits can become afflictionsLet’s add to the list two additionsMoney and power can be addictions. If one sells drugs, one goes to jailThese guys steal, get out on bailThey do bad but still prevail. They do not die but fade awayParachutes carry them through the frayBut what about me, […]
I am a Jew. Unfortunately, once again (or maybe since time immemorial, it has never ceased) there is a rise in antisemitic (read Jewish, as the word includes Arab) acts, rhetoric, remarks, thoughts, etc. Those fours words are a proud, defiant, courageous and a bit crazy statement to make. So why […]
No one knowsThat’s how it goesToday could be your lastAnd life goes by oh so fast No one knows how long one getsJust live your life without regretsNo coulda, woulda, shoulda in your viewBecause they limit what you can do Follow if you hear a callBut be kind to one […]
My Dad is gone now.So too is the world over which he reigned.He owned a printing shop.Its demise was partly due to the unions.And like other professions, was conquered by a more recent warrior:Modern technology, even swifter than the industrial age.Efficient and cheaper, but with much less character. Entering the […]
I fought so long but now succumbI’ve joined the group and it’s a bumI took a test just to be sureNow time’s the only semi-cure. Another thing: it can come backAnd a relapse puts you back on trackCOVID once isn’t very niceBut twice just isn’t a fair price. Symptoms they […]
The slap heard ’round the worldcontinues to unfurlendless times on TV.How many times must we seethe downfall of “Richard the King?”Will we ever learn this simple thingthat from violence comes only sad,that a good life’s reduced to bad? This incident though rather smallmirrors what we all recall.We see it in everyday […]
Background After law school, my husband, Gary, clerked for the chief judge, Edward S. Northrop, on the Federal bench in Baltimore. Also on that court was Judge Abraham (names have been changed), the father-in-law of Gary’s moot court partner, Frank. Judge Abraham was given security protection because of a desegregation […]