About this website
About This WebsiteThe website was opened in October, 2001. For me, it’s a diary of sorts. I hope that frequent entries in this personal/political journal will help me make sense of what’s going on in a time more difficult than any I can remember. It’s not that we have yet come upon anything equivalent to the Nazi-Axis drive for world conquest or the great depression of the 1930s. It’s that the long-term problems are now so enormous, and the direction of world and domestic affairs seems to be toward impasse, or worse, rather than to collective solutions.
In this website journal, I expect to share my hopes and pleasures as well as worries and ideas. I will be talking and sorting things out mostly for myself, but I’ll try not to be self-indulgent to the point of boring my friends and others who look in on me here.
From a personal standpoint, the difficulty of these times is partly a function of aging. I’m healthy, but I’ve gradually drifted outside all the loops I navigated before retiring. The same holds for many of my close friends, and is compounded by illness and growing disability. So that experience is also an undercurrent in the musings that will find their way into my journal.
The form I’ve chosen for this diary/journal is to post updates on the home page every few days, or sometimes weeks; the entire journal can be viewed as it evolves. The directory will also include items excerpted from the Journal on selected topics as well as several earlier articles and talks.
I’m looking forward to company on this website. Please send me email often.
Leon Wofsy
Postscript:October 19, 2003
Two years ago today, I began this diary/journal. Today it closes. I'll keep the website and most of its present contents, but my homepage will no longer be tied to the calendar. From time to time, I'll write Op Eds and sundry pieces about things that interest me, but I won't try to keep up a running commentary on the news. The journal of the past two years, which spawned the book, “At 80: An old bird’s eye view of the year following September 11, 2001”, remains accessible via the Directory.