Michael Laba

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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