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May 24, 2020

We are nearing the four-year anniversary of this website. michaelaba.com first became public on May 31, 2016, and the exact date was intenti

April 22, 2020

Social Distancing… All of us here in New York City have adopted the policy to the best of our abilities. Which is, to be frank, surreal. Th

March 23, 2020

What a difference one month makes… Twenty-five days ago I was casually reflecting on the relatively infrequent times personal history appea

February 27, 2020

Now that my collection of true stories has finally been written, revised, edited and recorded, I have a bit of freedom to reflect over the r

January 25 , 2020

I was transfixed by the televised Watergate trial back when I was in the twelve-to-thirteen-year-old age range. John Dean’s scripted perform

December 22, 2019

This time last year I was in a bit of a reflective mood, it seems. My main focus for the Christmas of 2018 blog was to search and find meani

November 22, 2019

The year-long odyssey of writing and recording my new collection of stories is finally over. “These Stories Are True” - both the book and au

October 25, 2019

Listening to Barrack Obama this afternoon give a well-thought-out and customarily eloquent eulogy to the recently-departed Elijah Cummings w

September 25, 2019

Three months ago, I closed my blog with a wishful prediction: the audio work for my upcoming collection “These Stories Are True” would be co

August 24, 2019

After all these summers on Martha’s Vineyard, I finally was granted the chance to see Livingston Taylor’s annual end-of-season show at the O

July 23, 2019

Saw the movie “Yesterday” last night. Many of my friends have been encouraging me to do so, being the loyal Beatles fan I happily remain. I

June 24, 2019

As promised, I’ve been moving forward on recording an audio version of the new collection of short stories, “These Stories Are True”. This t