As the destruction of Gaza unfolds day after endless day I find myself thinking about my late friend Otto Schnepp. Otto and I served on…
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Is it time to confess environmental crimes against nature? I had decided to expand my pot patch into a new area in the back forty,…
The warden of one of the world’s largest and most overcrowded penitentiaries might reasonably be expected to be a burly, hard-spoken disciplinarian, packing a gun…
It was fitting that Rafael Puyana, the Colombian harpsichordist who died ten years ago in Paris at the age of eighty-one, should have made his…
“Alright then,” announced Mr. Bumpers. “It’s decided. We’ll open the house to those less fortunate, like homeless-type people guests, right? All in?” Nods of agreement…
It was late summer, 1987. A hot afternoon was fading into evening, after I'd spent the day working six games as an umpire in the…
The word “melena” can be spelled and pronounced in two ways with profoundly different meanings. With the accent on the second syllable and an “i”…
You say yes, it’s artificial because it is presented in nonhuman expressions. You say no it’s not artificial because you read somewhere that it isn’t,…
Seven miles offshore from a fishing village called Guanghai (“an opening to the sea”) in Taishan County, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China are two…