It all started in May 2020. The Covid Crisis had descended on all of us. In my retirement, I had managed to keep busy with responsibilities and activities, but quarantine meant a lot less outside and a lot more inside. Initially, I contented myself with reading, journalling, blogging (DjinnfromtheBronxChapterThree), and various forms of continuing education. Still, it seemed I should be doing something else, something not only for me, but something useful for others, particularly in a difficult time.
When I was young growing up in the Bronx, I had early come to the idea of being an attorney. Why? When I think of it, I really have no idea why, except that I was verbal and bright enough. But I hated confronation. Then a new potential career presented itself. I spent several of my college years as a student radio broadcaster, WFUV-FM in New York, Fordham University. I loved it. But it wasn’t a straight line to a job, and I was risk aversive. I went back to the original career choice, something I was good at, could make a living at, do some good with, but did not really love, the practice of law. I was blessed to find a niche in that arena that suited my psychological and ethical disposition. I have no regrets.
In the intervening 30 some years, I returned to my Catholic faith. Technology became so advanced. I realized I could combine my youthful interest in “radio broadcasting” with my rediscovered faith and the skill I had developed in speaking and presenting during the years I had been an attorney. I researched the mechanics of podcasting on YouTube, bought a small mixer, a couple of microphones, a couple of headsets and set up a little studio in my dining room in Los Angeles.
And so, here I am. I have my Ordinary Old Catholic Me domain on which to publish links to my podcast, follow ups from my podcast, and other thoughts, articles and reveries related to faith and the struggle to live a good life.
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