Why are they Oligarchs in Russia but simply Billionaires here? “Oligarchy” from Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary: “1: government by the few; 2: a government in which a small group exercises … [Read more...]
Just One Man’s Opinion
I am going to spill the beans. You already know I am a dog-person not a cat-person -- parallel devotions usually without intersection. So this will further alienate you or tickle your attention. Some … [Read more...]
Get Supple
I am notorious in my family for moving furniture around. The desire to change a room used to come on me all of a sudden. Once we lived in a big 100-plus year old house and my wife would come home and … [Read more...]
On Writing Denim Spirit
A NOTE...to those reading this on my website rather than in the newspaper: Denim Spirit is a weekly column that appears each Wednesday in The Finger Lakes Times (NY. Cir. 30,000) and the references … [Read more...]
Is it okay to poison dogs?
I realize not everyone likes dogs. Some people prefer cats, some birds. Some get along with plants while others keep fish. I get it, or at least intellectually I accept it. But really, a dog... A … [Read more...]
Is it a wonderful life?
A haze of white flakes pelted my face with the temperature in the teens on Monday morning. Dog and I leaned in against the wind as March roared like a lion with forty mph wind gusts. By mid-morning I … [Read more...]
Aging Spirits
Burris School, K-12, Muncie, Indiana I grew up in a Midwestern rust belt college town about the size of Utica, NY. When I was young the assembly lines were humming -- Westinghouse, Borg Warner … [Read more...]
You and Me and Putin
Earth is a single cell in the body of something so vast we can’t even imagine it. All we can do is stutter the word, “God.” Cells are subject to cancer and neurodegenerative disease so the nucleus … [Read more...]
A River of Gratitude
I was an adjunct professor for five years and taught an introduction to the primal narratives in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As it turned out, for some students it was also a writing boot … [Read more...]
You feeling down about things?
How are we to think about the world we live in just now? How can we incorporate all the dire information coming at us from different directions, and still make sense of the wonderful close-in world of … [Read more...]
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