One of a series of useful civic actions for homebound citizens So, how’s it going for you? Getting tired of being shut in and told you can’t leave? It does have its limits, doesn’t it? But hang in
Homemade Lemonade #2: Making a Shady Deal on Climate
One of a series of action steps we can take from home to improve our lives and others’ lives. I never gave much thought to the ferocious summertime sun that blasted Fresno, California, where I grew
Homemade Lemonade #1: Voting From Home—Forever
One of a series of action steps we can take from home to improve our lives and others’ lives. My son-in-law Sam Daley-Harris is the offspring of a couple of gloriously patriotic parents. His late
An Outlaw in the Oval Office
The current President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, removed any doubt last night about whether he will obey the tripartite boundaries of powers stipulated by the Constitution of the United
Is It Just Me?
I'm wild again Beguiled again A simpering, whimpering child again Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I Rodgers & Hart 1940 Forgive me. I’m going to break my pledge (which you didn’t
“For the duration…”
I was five years old when World War II came to the United States. It was early December—the 7th, to be exact—when my older brother Jay, my father, and I were in our basement in Wakefield,
“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty
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