Michael Laba

As the many of you who read these blogs are aware of, I’ve become rather atypically political these past few months. I trust most of you to

Well, it’s come down to this. We are now twelve days away from what I am cautiously optimistic will be a return to sanity. A vote to reaffi

So after being in New York City for the entirety of this crazy year of 2020, I took advantage of a JetBlue deal to spend 13 days on Martha’s

Reading your appraisals of stories and songs shared on michaelaba.com has been an extremely gratifying diversion from the blog-writing and e

July is the month… I wish would never end… I’ve quoted this line from my song “July” in every seventh-month email since 2016. But interesti

Isolation is starting to ease up here in NYC. Phase 2 of the restart began this past Monday and suddenly an air of festivity is seeping back

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

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

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

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

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

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