My job is to devise a whole new set of rules and concepts to shorten the time it takes to play a game of Major…
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There is no better beginning to a week than watching a baseball game, and there is no better baseball game than Opening Day, that mythic…
This is a parable worth a few lines here, although it derives from a rather peculiar personal experience of mine which has attracted unusual, if…
It is early afternoon in downtown Seattle on November 30, 1999. Inside the Washington State Convention Center, capitalist investors and government bureaucrats at the World Trade Organization Ministerial are
Despite the most beautiful of intentions I find myself a victim once more to idealized conceptions of time and space, the meaning of life, freshly…
“I’m calling because I’m desperate,” she said. “I know you write stories like this.” The caller explained herself. “I have a woman friend in Brooktrails,”…
A veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Abe Osheroff, 85, talks to AVA editor Bruce Anderson about fighting the fascists in Spain, communism, and the…
The rivets are rattling, steam is escaping from the boilers, and the arrows on the dials are jiggling while the warning lights blink and electric…
Last week Ellen Hartwell of Fort Bragg asked: “How can a lively, cognizant, compassionate ‘older’ woman find a suitable lover/companion in this post-modern morass of…