“It’s like deja-vu all over again.” — Yogi Berra My recent essay Cheating elicited several responses from readers wishing to share more examples of cheaters…
Posts published by “Todd Walton”
“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.” —…
Why am I writing about Helen Gurley Brown, famed editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and a champion of sexual freedom or a promoter of sexual enslavement, depending on your particular socio-political orientation? Well, because Helen Gurley Brown just died at the age of ninety, and though many people consider her a traitor to feminism, and many others see her as a pioneering feminist and social revolutionary, Helen was one of the very few magazine editors in America in the 1970’s and 80’s who would publish my short stories about the challenges facing men and women in the chaos of sexual and social change that arrived with the birth control pill and the dawn of the feminist epoch; thus I have no doubt about where I stand regarding Ms. Brown’s place in the history of psycho-sexual discourse.
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point…
I would not have gone to see Krishnamurti (since I didn’t know who or what he was) had not my Philosophy professor Robert Goff urged his students to go; and Goff would not have been my Philosophy professor had I been accepted into a Creative Writing seminar
A friend recently wrote to me about his philosophical discussions with a Jehovah’s Witness, and his letter brought back boatloads of memories of my friend…
“My stories run up and bite me on the leg, and I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I…
Several recent conversations with friends focused on how might we counter the cyber takeover of our society while at the same time fomenting positive change and a more vibrant local community; and the answer seems to be to invite people over to share a meal and talk.
“Things filled men with fear: the more things they had, the more they had to fear. Things had a way of riveting themselves on to…
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.” —…
Matt Cain recently pitched a perfect game for the San Francisco Giants while Greece is in the midst of a massive economic collapse. Gregor Blanco made one of the great catches in Giants history to preserve Cain’s perfecto while Spain is in economic freefall with over 25% unemployment and Spanish real estate prices falling falling falling.