Excerpts from Finding Ruby

Excerpts from Finding Ruby

A number of people have asked why they haven’t been receiving my blog posts lately (most of you have just been silently relieved). The answer is that for the past few years I’ve been working on a book. It’s about my two grandfathers – Rubin (“Ruby”) Schechter...
Books 3 – Friends Write Back

Books 3 – Friends Write Back

Apparently ignited by the plea for “help” in my recent Books 3 post, friends have sent a trove of recommendations that could keep me occupied with great fiction and nonfiction books for years. As I looked over the recommendations–some contained in the Comments...
Books That Moved Me–#3: Help Wanted!

Books That Moved Me–#3: Help Wanted!

This is the third, now sort-of triennial, edition of Books that Moved Me.  This one includes the novels and non-fiction books that I’ve liked the most since I posted Books 2 in 2020. As in the past, I’ve read virtually all the books on this list based on...
Contemplating the Penultimate Chapter

Contemplating the Penultimate Chapter

I have a relatively small working vocabulary, and this is probably the first time in my seventy years that I’ve used the word “penultimate.” Google helped me spell it. But I couldn’t think of a better way to describe what’s occasionally been on my mind lately as I’ve...