“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
You Can Listen Here Who expects that a modest errand to save a few dollars, combining Home and Auto Insurance with the same carrier, would resurrect a shade, my father at 63, my memory of him suddenly so strong and immediate that I had to turn my head away from the spot where he had tended this exact office for his friend in 1977. Just out of high school, Hope had begun to work […]
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You Can Listen Here I cannot bear much TV or radio talky-talk anymore – it all seems like a constant volcanic eruption of shite – one is pummeled by the sycophants of the left, or the lunatics of the right, by the ‘objective’ media showmen and women who so obviously savor their closeness to power, by sports’ talk inanities, and then on channel after channel, acute inflammations of celebrities, food, reality shows, and the real […]
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You Can Listen Here He threw his right hand up from the kitchen table where we were sitting and said, “I don’t need to learn. I only have to read this to find out specific information or facts that I need to complete something else.”* He was referring to the worksheet in front of him. He was referring to the novel, unread, by his left hand. He continued speaking. He let the dam break. […]
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You Can Listen Here Four more carted home yesterday afternoon, their silent promise the oldest continuous expectation of happiness in my life, and I had to stop and pick up one more reserved for me at the library, and then merrily away with a biography of Mozart and Jerusalem, two novels about desperate times in the South and one piece of reporting about returning veterans and the lives they struggle to restore. Meanwhile, I’m ninety pages […]
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