My Last Two Thousand Years

Herbert Gold

1972

I was present at the last birth. My wife and I had done the natural childbirth exercises. We were ready. The doctor was kind and easy.

The child was born, my fourth child, a boy. After three girls, Ann, Judy, and Nina, a boy. We would name him Ari, a Hebrew name meaning the Holy Lion.

“Okay, one more push, Mrs. Gold, Melissa, and it’ll be all over…

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Creator Bio

Herbert Gold

b. 1924

Novelist Herbert Gold grew up in the Cleveland, Ohio, area and moved to New York to study at Columbia University. Gold was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, and he moved to Paris, attending the Sorbonne. He later came to San Francisco, where he associated with the Beat generation, notably poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Gold is the author of more than twenty novels.

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