BLOG | michaelaba.com

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

January 28, 2022

My mother used to cook for our large family every day. But once all seven of us left the nest, she generally abandoned what had become a we

December 30, 2021

End-of-the-year blogs are perhaps destined to feel somewhat bittersweet. Another twelve months have gone by and have any of us truly accomp

November 28, 2021

While it’s tempting to use the remainder of this Thanksgiving Weekend to reflect on where we stand as a country versus where we were this

October 29, 2021

Hard to believe elections are already happening again. Which means, of course, this time last year was one of the more consequential moment

September 29, 2021

Deadlines can be a helpful, if often naggingly self-imposed, tool to bring about what could be long-desired accomplishments. You’d like to