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Continue reading →: Happy Eastern Orthodox Easter!
A very Happy Easter to all my Eastern Orthodox family and friends! Easter Eggs Complete!
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Continue reading →: Easter Egg Surprise!
So we began the process of boiling our Easter Eggs this morning, and I decided to take one out for a rare omelette with my sister’s roasted peppers. Alas, I did not know how rare this would be! Lo and behold … a double yolk! There is a one-in-one thousand…
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Continue reading →: Holy Week Memories
This date, April 21, has special significance to me. On this date in 1974, I was admitted to Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn—the same hospital in which I was born—to undergo life-saving intestinal by-pass surgery for Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome. I often think of that hospital as the place in which…
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Continue reading →: Hiromi Shinya Memorial Date
As Notablog readers know, I memorialized the trailblazing Dr. Hiromi Shinya in two previous posts back in December 2021 and January 2022. I was just informed by his daughter, Erica Kim, that a memorial service will be held for her father on Sunday, October 9, from 3:30pm at the Marble…
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Continue reading →: Happy Passover, Western Easter, and Ramadan!
Three holidays converge this weekend, so I’m wishing my Jewish friends a Happy Passover, my Western Christian friends a Happy Easter, and my Islamic friends a Happy Ramadan. The Eastern Orthodox Christians celebrate Palm Sunday today… so I’ll delay my Happy Eastern Easter greetings till next week! But a special…
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Continue reading →: “Better Call Saul” Returns …
As a huge fan of “Breaking Bad“, “El Camino“, and “Better Call Saul“, I can’t wait to pick up where we left off as the final season of BCS gets underway tomorrow night!
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Continue reading →: LGBTQ + Education
Folks have long known my stance on LGBTQ+ issues, but I wanted to give a H/T to Ari Armstrong, who provides some worthwhile “Notes on the ‘Groomer’ Panic and Transgender issues“. Ari is spot on in his central concern that “various conservatives seem to be intentionally drumming up a moral…
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Continue reading →: Brooklyn Subway Shooting
By now, the whole world has learned of the subway shooting in the Sunset Park section of my hometown, Brooklyn, New York. The action eventually shifted to my own neighborhood, where the suspect left a rented van—two blocks from my apartment, on West 3rd Street and Kings Highway, in the…
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Continue reading →: A New FB Profile Pic, Part II
In Coney Island, Brooklyn, in the shadow of the Parachute Jump. Also see Facebook post here.
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Continue reading →: Ski & the BTHS Homecoming 100
2022 marks the centennial year of Brooklyn Technical High School. This weekend is the Tech Homecoming, sponsored by the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation. My sister, Elizabeth (“Ms. Ski”) Sciabarra, began her career at BTHS as an Apprentice Teacher of English in September 1972. She was officially appointed in 1977, and…
