Running Away from Home An essay by Dr. Lloyd Sederer I must have been nine or ten, thereabouts, since that’s when parents let – or often wish to have - their boys completely out of their sights, unsupervised too. When kids (especially boys) want to do the mischief borne of their DNA, and when parents don’t want to be pestered. My best friend was my first cousin, Steve, a few months older than I, the older son of my mother’s sister, Muriel. They lived in Queens, Forest Hills ,

The Twerys Former Rockefeller Mansion, Tarrytown, NY An essay by Dr. Lloyd Sederer You could ride a bicycle around the giant kitchen table. Not one from La Tour de France, I grant you, but a bike with two wheels (and white sidewall tires). I swear it because I remember getting yelled at for doing just that. The table’s massive bulk surely must have weighed a ton because three 9-year-old boys straining enough to risk a hernia could not budge it. It sat impassively at the ce

An essay by Dr. Lloyd Sederer You know the old saw about rich people, attributed to an exchange between Fitzgerald and Hemingway? To paraphrase, ...they are different, they have money. Money may be their common characteristic, though rich people are as varied as species of birds or gerbils. Except, of course, they are hominids. As a boy, my parents and relatives used to talk about rich people in hushed tones, with a reverence befitting Saints, except we were not Catholic. Ric

Lucid Dreaming Might you know what a lucid dream is? Do you have lucid dreams? A lucid dream is not just another vivid dream in which intense images and feelings dominate your sleep. A lucid dream is one in which you are aware you are dreaming. During (or after) a lucid dream you may have an epiphany like ...‘Wait…I’m dreaming!’” In a lucid dream, the dreamer is frequently in an unfamiliar or distant location. Commonly, the dreamer is moving at great speed, like flying or in

A film by Christopher Nolan Reviewed by Lloyd Sederer MD Soon into the 3 hours of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the screen explodes with perilous ocean scenes of a Norse Sea ship on its 10-year return to home, both distant in sea miles and memory. It is returning from Troy and the Trojan War, seeking Ithaca, Greece (ca., 700 BC). Universal Pictures That’s when I had a metaphysical experience. I became quite anxious (not like me). I could not discern where I was (as in an I

Some friendships transcend lifetimes.

My account about the failure to solve homelessness (in NYC) Shutterstock An essay by Dr. Lloyd Sederer My wife and I were at an elegant dinner party on the upper west side of Manhattan on a cold, clear wintry Saturday night. The conversation shifted to the homeless men sleeping on the steps of a nearby church. It was no surprise since our hosts and others there knew we both worked to improve the lot of the homeless in NYC. My wife through her work with supported housing and

A film review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer Awarded for Direction, Rashad Frett, US Drama, Sundance Film Festival, 2025 ......................................................................................................... RICKY is the fictional story of a young black man in America, the northeast, not the south. Phillip Roth wrote, “... fiction is the closest thing we have to the truth". Convicted of armed auto theft at age 15, Ricky was sentenced as an adult to what would last 15

An essay by Lloyd I Sederer MD UFOs, the Unidentified Flying Objects in our skies are often reported by terrestrials (us) as appearing like “saucers”. Their speeds silently break the sound barrier, and their acrobatics defy the laws of physics. Accurate descriptions of pilots and engineers elude “ufologists” because of their heavenly distance and velocity. Too bad what could presumably be their informative earthen corpses are rapidly and surreptitiously removed by government