Continue Reading Connecting the Dots Still thinking about walls. Or, more precisely, about borders. They rule politics, these days, or the talk about them does. Case in…
Continue Reading Illusions This week I’ll tackle one or another illusion from a variety of contexts. Well, that’s the plan, let’s see how it goes. The…
Continue Reading Sick Bay To close the week I’ll post Ginsberg’s poem Hospital Window, written in response to the last battle of the Vietnam War, mourning futile…
Continue Reading Bird Hospital Why do I like my Leberwurst so much….. was my first inane thought about one of the most fascinating articles I read…
Continue Reading Faith Healers “It’s an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ‘art’ to defend their collapsing culture.” George Grosz Down the street from where I…
Continue Reading Raise Hell I literally just started a novel, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Reviews were reportedly stellar, my friends urged me to read it,…
Continue Reading The Wound-Dresser Men at War One of my favorite contemporary baritones, Sanford Sylvan, suddenly died last month, a year younger than I. “We are going…
Continue Reading The Year of the Pig Yesterday was the first day of the Chinese New Year and the Chinese Garden looked particularly festive with red balloons swinging from…
Continue Reading Silencio Blanco: Pescador The German word Entschleunigung is, like so many of our words, hard to translate. It refers to a general slowing down, but it also implies intention about dialing…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: Au Naturel, Astoria We have this thing in our household about language. Well, someone has a thing in our house about my language – more…
