“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 New York City in the 1970’s, Victorian London (especially in the time of the Ripper , the 1880’s), and the Moscow of today have long captivated my imagination. I visited New York often in the 70’s and learned at least the rudiments of street awareness there, Dickens’ and Stevenson’s London have left indelible images in my imagination and Arkady Renko’s Moscow is described by Smith in seven novels detailing the police detective’s efforts […]
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You Can Listen Here The pain ripped up the back of my left thigh at unexpected intervals. All the muscles of my body, feet to fingers, were tensed and had been so for miles. Then the sciatic nerve on the outside of my right thigh began to pulse, and though almost home, I slowed on the familiar back roads bracing myself for another sharp thrust. When I left the driver’s seat, I straightened my back and […]
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You Can Listen Here In 1964 I began to listen to Phillies’ games. I loved Bill Campbell’s home run calls. His voice and visits to Connie Mack stadium, the best of old hulks, gave me a boy’s green love of baseball. My father took me several times. We always sat on the third base side under the upper deck. My first time there I watched Dick Allen hit a triple off the Ballantine beer scoreboard in right center […]
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You Can Listen Here Issue by issue, deconstruct those musty stacks of National Geographic’s left in basements everywhere and you will find artists’ renderings of our ancestors, all of them hairy, stooped and eyes bright with potential. One illustration shows a troop of them on the edge of the rain forest about two million years ago. They are looking out over the savanna and its scattered Acacia trees, yellow grasses, enormous sky. Oh what to […]
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