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Spring is here, time to get to know each other
Myself, I have a bias in favor of public education because that was my experience. I came from very exclusive fundamentalist evangelicals who looked …
1 year, 9 months ago
The beauty of falls that you walk away from
I fell twice crossing 89th Street, once in the middle of the street, once at the curb. I misjudged the step, crashed down on my hands and knees and c…
1 year, 9 months ago
On the road again, meeting folks again
It’s an age of dread, the news perpetually discouraging, TV and media merchandising ugliness, and either you join the Greek chorus of gloom or you go…
1 year, 9 months ago
The critic who lit up my week and more
I’m still writing books but haven’t been reviewed by anybody in ages, maybe because I’m an Old White Male and our time is up, or maybe I’ve written t…
1 year, 10 months ago
Let's talk about honesty, grrrr, rrrfff, rrrfff
The fact is that when I was a kid in Minnesota, struggling my way through six-foot snowdrifts to school, long before lightweight down coats were inve…
1 year, 10 months ago
THEY WERE SO YOUNG
Monday is Memorial Day, a day that got lost when it was turned into a weekend, and someday we’ll turn it back into a day, which it was for a hundred …
1 year, 10 months ago
All of me loves olive oil and this is why
No, it’s been a hard life and I didn’t mention the time I was kidnapped by coyotes. But I’m grateful. I tell myself, “It could be worse. I could get …
1 year, 10 months ago
Epictetus on Fifth Avenue, a week ago
The world’s longest parking lot is Fifth Avenue in New York at midday and a week ago I found myself stuck in it, in a cab driven by a devout Sikh wit…
1 year, 10 months ago
My personal journey towards self-minimalization
These days we’re in the era of the Personal Position Statement as we saw in the recent National Book Awards ceremony in New York. There is no NBA for…
1 year, 11 months ago
Singing to the Lord to save Herschel
So what happened to joke-telling?For one thing, some of the best jokes are about death. The old Republican is dying and tells his wife, “I’m going to…
1 year, 11 months ago