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Beware the Year of the Snake! (Even if Your Chinese Horoscope Says He’s Your Friend)

The 2025 Chinese Lunar New Year begins on Jan. 29 and ends with the Lantern Festival on Feb. 12. This will be the Year of the Wood Snake…

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Beware the Year of the Snake! (Even if Your Chinese Horoscope Says He’s Your Friend)

4d ago

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Confessions of a Jazz Groupie

I was in the mood for a little night music on the eve of New Year’s Eve. And as luck would have it, my friend Ben Rosenblum, a jazz pianist…

Jan 2

Confessions of a Jazz Groupie

Jan 2

Confessions of a Jazz Groupie

I was in the mood for a little night music on the eve of New Year’s Eve. And as luck would have it, my friend Ben Rosenblum, a jazz pianist…

Jan 1

Confessions of a Jazz Groupie

Jan 1

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Time to Retire My Old Work Laptop. Letting Go of It Is Another Story.

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Dec 30, 2024

Time to Retire My Old Work Laptop. Letting Go of It Is Another Story.

Dec 30, 2024

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Are the Radical Progressive Left America’s “Deplorables” Now?

I know there have to be at least a dozen reasons why a majority of Americans voted for Donald Trump in last week’s presidential election…

Nov 13, 2024

Are the Radical Progressive Left America’s “Deplorables” Now?

Nov 13, 2024

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A Poem for My Wife on Her 65th Birthday

Sometimes I get the lotus flower Sometimes I get the cactus Sometimes I hit her tender spot Sometimes I need more practice

Nov 8, 2024

A Poem for My Wife on Her 65th Birthday

Nov 8, 2024

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Why This Election Is Different

When I was 21 — still the legal voting age back then — I cast my first ballot in the presidential election between Republican Richard…

Oct 17, 2024

Why This Election Is Different

Oct 17, 2024

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Fine People on Both Sides of the Conversation About Ta-Nehisi Coates’s New Book — Note So Much in…

Walter Cronkite must be turning over in his grave! What would he say if he knew that the management of CBS News — the monument to quality…

Oct 14, 2024

Fine People on Both Sides of the Conversation About Ta-Nehisi Coates’s New Book — Note So Much in…

Oct 14, 2024

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Eavesdropping in New York, №5: Finding My Voice in the FedEx Store

Sep 22, 2024

Eavesdropping in New York, №5: Finding My Voice in the FedEx Store

Sep 22, 2024

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Why Didn’t Tyreek Hill Listen to “The Talk”? Anatomy of an Avoidable Conflict

If you follow sports even casually, or if you read the newspaper or watch the news, you’re likely to be aware of the run-in that Miami…

Sep 13, 2024

Why Didn’t Tyreek Hill Listen to “The Talk”? Anatomy of an Avoidable Conflict

Sep 13, 2024

Martin D. Hirsch

Martin D. Hirsch

Lapsed singer-songwriter, 35-year accidental company man, citizen of The Woodstock Nation, avid essayist, occasional poet, aspiring author, dogged evolutionary.

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