By Mickey Friedman July 30, 2015 There was a message waiting from Monty Pickleberg, Founder of Facelook. “It has come to our attention that it’s been a while since you posted a smile. You know, of course: No Smiles, No…
Author: Mickey Friedman
Every Bad Journey
By Mickey Friedman July 20, 2015 It finally happened. That dreaded knock on the door. Right in the middle of SportsCenter. Ever get the feeling that you just shouldn’t answer? I won’t tell you what I muttered but I managed…
Terror: Red, White, and Blue
By Mickey Friedman June 30, 2015 We have been relentlessly focused on Muslim Extremism ever since 9/11. It is how we view terrorism. On TV shows, on news reports, in our nightmares, the terrorists are Muslims. Though it happened in…
Allez
June 22, 2015 By Mickey Friedman 2003. It seems like a lifetime ago when Republican Bob Ney renamed French fries because the French didn’t want to invade Iraq. We showed those Frenchies. Freedom fries not only tasted better but were…
The Melting Honeybees
By Mickey Friedman June 10, 2015 I’ve never been able to juggle. One ball’s going up, another is headed down, and another is suspended for a moment in space. Too confusing and the balls invariably fall from the sky and…
I Know Defensive
By Mickey Friedman May 22, 2015 I’ve been lucky enough to have loved and been loved, in the short term at least, by a small gaggle of therapists. Of the Freudian, Jungian, Family, and Psychosynthesist persuasions, plus a Hungarian Jewish…
Maxy For Mayor
May 13, 2015 By Mickey Friedman They all have Japanese names, these incredible yellow machines that now make Main Street their home. My favorite, Komatsu. But they all do amazing work. Thanks to their humans. I’ve got a front row…
Twenty-Two Times A Day
April 26, 2015 By Mickey Friedman Sometimes something happens we know nothing about. Down the road a bit. Around the block. The other side of town. In another state. Or the other side of the country. And so it’s understandable…
Goodbye
April 21, 2015 By Mickey Friedman We’re supposed to just get on with it. Embrace the future. Forsake sadness. As the past vanishes before our eyes. Exalt the instrument of transformation, the chainsaw. But during a moment of daydream one…
Starting Fresh
By Mickey Friedman April 3, 2015 Some in the Berkshire Hills Regional School District (BHRSD) look down their educational noses at our neighbors of the Southern Berkshire Regional School District (SBRSD). But the administrators, School Committee, teachers, students, support staff,…
It’s A Bird, Man!
March 10, 2015 By Mickey Friedman Surprise, surprise: It’s a Bird, Man! Hollywood, maker of dreams, never-ending schemes to fill movie theaters packed with people munching popcorn. One of many millions, I watched Neil Patrick Harris sing and dance his…
Je Suis Mickey
By Mickey Friedman February 27, 2015 Je suis Mickey. I am Mickey. Certainly not Charlie. When I get anywhere near Paris, the little French I learned at eight in the morning at City College goes running for the Spanish border.…