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January 28, 2023

Hello again, everyone - and welcome to the New Year! First of all, it seems like a bit of a miracle that I’m carving up enough time to get

December 30, 2022

As another year draws to a close, there’s nothing like a casual perusal of twelve months’ worth of blogs to help bring a small sense of

November 29, 2022

I’d have to check out the now over six-and-a-half years’ worth of blog entries written so far (I know… can you believe it?…) to be certain,

October 31, 2022

Happy Halloween from everyone here at michaelaba.com. (Meaning me, of course…) The pressure is on to get my monthly blog in before Nov

September 28, 2022

I had the good fortune to attend the Doobie Brothers 50th Anniversary Tour at Radio City Music Hall on my first night back in NYC three week

August 30, 2022

Jumping off that bridge… As long as your safety is assured, sometimes you've just got to do it… And I’m speaking metaphorically, of course

July 29, 2022

A quick glimpse through the michaelaba.com blog entries lets me know there hasn’t really been a good rant by me on the state of politics in

June 28, 2022

Well, let’s start with the bad news of this past month. Our nation had to suffer through TWO horrendous - though sadly foreseeable - ruling

May 31, 2022

Today is the sixth-year anniversary of this website, which was intentionally dropped on what would have been my mother’s 85th birthday.

April 29, 2022

One of the perks I’ve allowed myself over the last couple of decades or so has been to hire a cleaner for my small NYC studio apartment. Fo

March 27, 2022

This new version of michaelaba.com is a little over two months shy of reaching its first anniversary, and finally I’m adding to the

February 27, 2022

Well, here we are, five days removed from the rather fun curiosity of Tuesday, 2/2/2022 and our attention has unfortunately been diverted to