Continue Reading Seeds and Such A young German historian, Annika Brockschmidt, recently published a book about America’s Holy Warriors (so far available in German only as Amerikas…
Continue Reading Pipe Dreams Looking into the endless gray this week, all I wanted was color. The rain hammered on my roof during the nights, with…
Continue Reading Tu B’Shevat Today I want to introduce the poetry of someone my US readers will likely be unfamiliar with. I chose the poet and…
Continue Reading Witches Butter None to be found, neither witches, nor butter. Hope defied, again! Well, it was a trail name, referring to an orange-colored…
Continue Reading Discovery Discovery I believe in the great discovery.I believe in the man who will make the discovery.I believe in the fear of the man…
Continue Reading Geopolitical Primer In January 2020 I wrote about my foreboding regarding a recently emerged virus no-one had ever heard of. Maybe my sense of…
Continue Reading Reinterpretations Sometimes I find myself fascinated by ideas that artists have without necessarily liking what they do with them. Or, perhaps more precisely,…
Continue Reading The Clock is Ticking What better way to distract oneself from pandemic woes than reading or watching tales of apocalyptic destruction? I mean, psychological gains from…
Continue Reading Wanderlust Essential Meaning of Wanderlust: a strong desire to travel. Full Definition of Wanderlust: strong longing for or impulse toward wandering. – Merriam Webster If you…
Continue Reading New Year’s Resolutions. 2022. Welcome to a glut of grim as NYT editorialist Frank Bruni put it so aptly a few days ago. Let’s ignore…
