Goodbye Barry, I have written nearly two dozen pieces about you and your presidency in these pages. But this is the first (and probably last) addressed directly to you. Like…
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# Journal Entry
T’is the season for blessings and blasphemies. That is my suggested “war on Xmas” replacement for “Merry Xmas, although it doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue. But it’s a more…
I recently received a letter (not in email; a paper letter) from one of my granddaughters. It is a treasure that will keep, as I have for many years…
November 9 was an epiphany day for me in some ways. I have not watched a news program, MSNBC, or listed to an NPR or PBS broadcast since that day.…
Several of my correspondents have communicated to me that, like me, they have desisted in their use of media since November 9. One has even taken to tossing her…
I have travelled to over seventy countries, explored hundreds of cities and spent years living abroad in England, France and Hong Kong, enough to confer some understanding of what foreigners…
Growing up in the years immediately following the end of WWII I came to not only wonder how an evil country like Nazi Germany that followed a minster like Adolf…
Preamble: Less than two weeks before a Clinton or a Trump presidency I went back to take a look at how I was feeling about American politics and the…
Japanese troops parade in Queen’s Road, Victoria, Hong Kong , December 1941 CONCERTO, a novel by Elizabeth Darrell (1993); THE PIANO TEACHER, A NOVEL, by Janice Y.K. Lee, (2009)…
Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ (1602) oil on canvas (52.6 in × 66.7 in) National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Owing to my concentration on book length projects of late it has been…