Good morning, subscribers. This post is a time-out from promoting Undertow as we lead up to its 7th birthday. Today, I want to tell you a little story about libraries. The other day in a Trader Joe’s grocery store here in Florida, I passed by a woman wearing a t-shirt … [Read more…]
Good morning, subscribers. Like a bite-sized brownie, today’s post is short and sweet. It’s a treasure I found stored with all the material I’ve posted here for the last 8 years—since 2015 when this blog was born. Published on Sunday, July 21, 2019, I believe it’s even more relevant today … [Read more…]
Greetings, subscribers. Here’s a flashback to 1986 when I returned to college in Ohio after having dropped out of East Carolina University in N.C. in 1970 to join a cult. Things have changed since then, but my experience speaks to recent unimaginable challenges to education. Back in 1986, my cult … [Read more…]
Greetings, subscribers. This post is about something I did to honor cancer victims. My mother died of ovarian cancer at the young age of 48 in 1968 when I was 16 years old. As I recall, she didn’t have time to actually lose much of her hair before that dreadful … [Read more…]
Greetings subscribers. Don’t you love it when you come across something in your files that you forgot about but glad you kept? The following is a letter I emailed to The New Yorker magazine in March, 2011, in response to an article they published by Lawrence Wright, titled: “The Apostate.” … [Read more…]