Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Mark Levy/Casual Observer

US Park Service General Grant National Memorial New York ***   Find a Grave   by Mark Levy Columnist   Quick: Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb? You know, the one at Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street in Manhattan. Grant’s Tomb, by the way, is formally...
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Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Photo by Brandon Morgan on Unsplash *** A Disease of My Own   I have a lot of medical problems. I live in hope that I will develop a unique disease that someone will name after me. Most diseases are named after the physician or scientist who first described the...
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Mark Levy/Casual Observer

All autodidacts: Thomas Alva Edison, Ernest Hemingway, Jimi Hendrix, Stanley Kubrick *** Autodidacts by Mark Levy Columnist Autodidacts, as all of us with college educations know, are people who have been partially or wholly self-taught. You may have heard of some of...
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Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Photo by freestocks.org on Unsplash   Contraindications: The Game   by Mark Levy Contributing Columnist                  I thought of a new game. I call it Contraindications. Here’s how you play it: I list one or more possible adverse side effects of taking...
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Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Yingpis Kalayom, Unsplash *** THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE YELLOW   by Mark Levy As I sit in the dental chair patiently allowing my dental hygienist, whose name is Julie, to clean my chompers, I start to think that I’ve spent a lot of time, energy, and money on my...