Available for PreOrder: My Blog Book by Howard Schwartz

In My Blog Book by Howard L. Schwartz M.D., we readers learn how psychoanalysts analyze themselves. From Fiddler on the Roof to Vietnam, from Homer to the Jersey shore, these blogs are eye-opening, both thrilling and terrifying. To see beyond the mirror, to acknowledge the angels and demons in us all—a journey worth taking.
—Karen V. Wescott, playwright, actor, journalist

Preface and Acknowledgement for My Blog Book
George Will Washington, D.C.
Education: Trinity College, Oxford University; Princeton University
George Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977. He is also a regular contributor to MSNBC and NBC News. His latest book, American Happiness and Discontents, was released in September 2021. His other works include: The Conservative Sensibility (2019), One Man’s America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation (2008), Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy (1992), Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball. He works from his home in Georgetown, as do I from my home office in Maplewood, NJ. I have read The Conservative Sensibility, although my politics are Liberal, and his discussion of the Conservative Sensibility is what you’d expect from an Oxford and Princeton Scholar. He is a scholar blogger, and a role model for me. I’ve just ordered his The Craft of Baseball. l am reading it now. One two, three strikes you’re out at the old ball game.

Oxford Dictionary: A regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.

A note to my reader of By Blog Book.:
I used Facebook’s “What’s on your mind?” page to post over 200 blogs, until I put it aside to write books, unlike Will, a polymath who did both. Like Will, I was an avid baseball fan, the Brooklyn Dodgers until they moved from cozy Ebbets Field: Wikipedia: Left field: 348 ft; Left center: 351 ft; Capacity: 18,000 (1913); 30,000 (1914–1923) Demolished: February 23, 1960.

These dimensions are important because my boyhood hero, Duke Snider, on a par with Willie Mays, and Mickie Mantle–I’m biased of course. Snider owned centerfield. To this day, when I’m having a bad or too stressful day, I say out loud “thwock-rhymes with clock-force your tongue against your hard palate–there it goes a homerun to dead centerfield.” The magical thinking of my boyhood has lasted a lifetime.

I have culled what to me are the most interesting blogs in no particular order to create a book of approximately 300 pages, beginning with a love letter to my wife-to-be when I was a sophomore in college, and included a memoir by my analyst, Howard Sshlossman’s Character Change in World War II, as a battalion surgeon, who went into psychiatry as a reaction to his experiences in the War. He lived to be 105 years old but did not include in the memoir that he was first physician to enter Auschwitz when it was liberated. I’ve always needed heroes. But first to the heroes who were the first responders on 9/11, a clinical vignette: