Category: death

  • Tell Scary Short Stories for Halloween

    The approach of Halloween has always frightened me, the thought of the dead rising and walking the earth for a night. This year, Neil Gaiman put up a great short video asking everyone to start a new tradition – give a scary book for All Hallows Eve, #AllHallowsRead if you are on twitter. I loved…

  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and NYC Subway Exits

    If a person had the desire to save someone, like an angel who arrives and keeps a soul among the living just before the inevitable descent into eternal darkness or the journey to the place of light – they have only to travel the New York City subway at about 8:30 in the morning on…

  • Life and Death with Interruptions

    I had jury duty today in Brooklyn, New York, one of the interruptions of our usual lives most of us don’t look forward to at all. My friends told me to bring a book. Jose Saramago’s “Death with Interruptions”, a novel, was the one I brought into the courtroom waiting area.

  • Perpetuate Peace, Good Will, Understanding among Nations -Veterans Day

    I ask myself the question every year on Veterans Day. What does it mean to me that my father had been a soldier in World War II? It is a day of reflection for me. But really, I ask the question not only on that day, but on Memorial Day and many other days in…

  • Underground – Excerpt from “Death and the Dream” on NYC Subways

      UNDERGROUND Excerpt from “Death and the Dream” 2011, J.J.Brown “What will you tell them about it? What will they understand?” I ask myself this as I tell myself the story again and again over the years. The extreme heat was searing down on Brooklyn that day. The power of the white morning sun was…