It has taken me longer than anticipated to write this next installment. My sister Lauren and I went to Louisiana last weekend to join Dad & Marianne for their first return to the house. This is what we saw, what happened over the course of those several days, and a bit of what […]

The index of this morning’s NYTimes listed the obituaries to be on page C15, the penultimate page of the Business Section, but in fact, the first Obituary appeared on page 1 of that section. There, below the fold, is an article titled, “Ruth Built the Steakhouse. Katrina Intervened.” In print, this is the […]

In 1848, a seventeen year old German Jew named Jacob Farrnbacher packed his bags, left his home and family in Bavaria, crossed the ocean, and entered the United States - we know not where - searching for a place to begin a new life for himself and for the family he planned. After four […]