In 1958, my parents moved our family to Eden, ten of us, with two more children soon to arrive. We joined the Immaculate Conception...

More from the management files. Proverb: Give a man to fish and we will not be hungry for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will never go...

...or solve your problems.

Some truths about systemic racism The systemic racism myth explained here and here. Black wisdom matters on the fruits of affirmative...

June 2020. To be thankful for, especially in this time of turmoil, form the magnificent to the mundane. My magnificent wife and the two...

June 2020. Look at the top left corner of the image. See Appleton? That's the city the US post office assigned as our zip code. But we...

This picture from our January UCLA family and friends trip evoked memories of August 1969. I think that had I not provided a date for the...

February 14, 2023. In the spring of 1973, I graduated from SUNY Binghamton. I had interviewed in Chicago for a job with Nalco, where...

More thoughts, analysis and reflections on the nature of poverty and its prevention, taken directly from my management class notes, early...

Some thoughts compiled from notes from fifty years of college, including forty-six years of college teaching, thousands of students and...

And it all started with a seemingly causal announcement from the governor. Eight days ago, I suggested to Dena that I make a late run to...

The Lorenzi's moved from Lackawanna to Eden in November 1958. There were ten of us, eight kids plus mom and dad. Lackawanna was a suburb...

Mostly, it's the memories. We moved to 601 Oak Farm Court (OFC) in March 1996, twenty-four years ago. We left OFC twenty-two years later....

For me, 'running' initially was an alternative to the problem of trying to schedule both a court and a partner to play racquetball in the...

December 2019. No, I did not attend UCLA, for any degree. I developed a fascination with UCLA back in the late 1960's from the...

Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator (HOPE) Award. Let's be clear, "progressive" in this use has nothing to do with the way...

This is not the entry I wanted to write. Yet I wanted to record some thoughts as the country appears to be hitting peak effort to combat...

[Update: Rather than befriending this expensive snowblower, I adopted a blade for my Cib Cadet, at one third the cost and no need to...

Small town life in the 1960's meant farming, clean air and inevitable social distancing. Eden, New York is and has long been a small...

Just as I had grown accustomed to and appreciative of the rural spread outside our back window, "there goes the neighborhood." Call it...