32. Beach Dreams: Castle Strategies
Our yellow cottage was possessive of its rooms. It had but three: a large bedroom, a smaller one, a cupboard-sized [...]
Tranquil terror
As I lie in bed humbled by the disease that will soon blind me, I am reminded of a [...]
It’s money that matters
An Italian friend and media consultant returned recently from a pan-Arab news broadcaster’s conference in Tunis with some sobering insights. [...]
A nod to Madame Clinton
On the eve of President’s Day, I found a photo that’s as close as I’ve ever gotten to a U.S. [...]
Rockabye sweet baby
Most of folk musician James Taylor's 170 published songs are about coming home – coming home to himself, really. In [...]
Miss Print
My daughter, Rebecca, has an überweird junior high school English teacher. Those are her words, not mine, since I’m stuck [...]
Notes on the latest newz
Webster’s defines propaganda in the most straightforward of ways: “The spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of [...]
31. Beach Dreams: Trailways
To get to the little yellow cottage by the big Atlantic sea required a bus that made many stops and [...]
Back in Detention Hall
Let us for a moment set aside all political realities. Let us view the 2024 American presidential contest not as [...]
RFK Jr., Aslan, and me
I was the youngest in my small family, the baby, and was always considered the quiet and sensitive one. But [...]
Strangers and stories
Every night, when I tuck my daughter Julia into bed, she asks me to tell her a story. For a [...]