Continue Reading Vicarious Travel Even people who are not particularly fond of travel are all of sudden lusting to go places. Such is the psychological reactance…
Continue Reading The world keeps ending, and the world goes on. A timely poem to end the week. The poet is Franny Choi, author of the poetry collections Soft Science (Alice James, 2019) and Floating,…
Continue Reading Horatio Alger (Lore,) Drop Dead! Self-reliance is a trait that many nations cherish, but none more so than the United States. The worship of self-reliance, the distrust…
Continue Reading Distracting, if Useless Beauty For fear that you’ll all desert me if I don’t loosen up, here is a mid-week respite before I return to issues…
Continue Reading Necropolitics Honestly, I am not trying to add to all of our fears and sadness. I do think, however, that we need to…
Continue Reading Happily ever after? Several large wedding ceremonies were held over the last weeks in New York City in the Orthodox Jewish Community, despite the city’s…
Continue Reading Hush, Frida! I could not believe my eyes. Here I was on the first longer outing in weeks, visiting one of my regular haunts…
Continue Reading Wait, Charmain! Or was it Charmin? Cotonelle? One of these names starting with a C. Why let a good crisis go to waste? We might…
Continue Reading Go, Stella Maybe my brain is certifiably going downhill, but I watched this video of Stella, the dog, jumping over and over and over…
Continue Reading Ach, Emily…. Dickinson, she leaves me confounded. Always. And now this poem, that I have been mulling over for some weeks. What to make…
