“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” — Bob Dylan The black athlete I am currently most enamored of is Michael Vick, the quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles who…
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“Tell the children the truth.” — Bob Marley 1957. Las Lomitas Elementary School. Menlo Park, California “I invite those people with ants in their pants,” proclaimed Mrs. Davenport, my third grade teacher, “to run to…
“The fraudulent practices that got people into homes they couldn’t afford are at the heart of our problem.” — Robert Scheer There is no doubt I am happier and more productive and healthier and much…
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.” — Katherine Mansfield A soggy afternoon, the last Friday in October of 2010, Halloween two…
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body.…
Whilst discussing my hopes and expectations for the San Francisco Giants with Mark Scaramella, he suggested I try my hand at writing about disappointment. I just hope my attempt doesn’t disappoint him. “Disappointment is a…
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.” — Raymond Chandler Before the advent of the interweb, I frequented libraries and secondhand bookstores in search of good short stories, my appetite for…
I have never heard of a workshop for writers that teaches the efficacious use of sex to make it big in thea tre or publishing or the movie business, but any writer who has toiled in Hollywood or New York or in the out posts of those Babylons knows that sexual linkage to people in power is of paramount importance to success in The Biz; and anyone who denies this is either a phony or grossly naïve.