Continue Reading Courage My father died 16 years ago in June. I have been thinking about him a lot lately because I coincidentally came across…
Continue Reading Blue Two more died this May. There will be no obituaries for them but at least we can name them. We can name…
Continue Reading Orange Carmen Yulia Cruz – Puerto Rico Politician We just learned that the official count of 64 hurricane Maria deaths in Puerto Rico was…
Continue Reading Rot(h) It was difficult to escape the glowing obituaries of Philip Roth who died this month at age 84. They were ubiquitous, one…
Continue Reading White Tom Wolfe, journalist and author, wearer of white suits, died on May 14th. (Photographs today in his honor therefor are white flowers….
Continue Reading Why not: a call for imitation Hatred alone is not enough I saw mention of this in the last couple of days, but the actual article actually appeared 2…
Continue Reading What it takes: a different perspective I was sent a famous poem yesterday that was entirely new to me. Nor was I particularly familiar with the poet other…
Continue Reading Who knew: it’s all in the narrative Coppersmith Today was not the best day. A short trip to San Francisco fell through and we had to eat the cost of…
Continue Reading What is: Morality You either roll your eyes or die of laughter that I am even asking this question, right? However, every day when I…
Continue Reading Who was: Chaim Soutine One of the last exhibitions I saw in Germany before I came to the US in the early 1980s was a Chaim…
