Every Good Morning

    I am the son of a Pennsylvania State Policeman. I know his stories. For the last year and ½ I have been volunteering with the State Police at their Museum in Hershey. A retired Corporal and I are recording the oral histories of other retired PSP officers whose ranks ran the gamut from Trooper to Major.  We are collecting their stories by filming them and hope to make […]

  I keep my misanthropy from overwhelming me because of love. No, No, No, I will not nauseate you with pop therapy or language about how love will unite all of us, blah, blah, retch, blah. No, I mean real love of specific creatures and of the living presence of others out there beyond Washington, beyond your news feed, beyond all the banal and enraging dung that appears on your […]

  During especially awful news days, I keep reminding myself of specific Shakespeare plays and their commentary on our own time, and recently of Act IV of King Lear when Edgar see his father cruelly blinded and abandoned in the wilderness. He says, “And worse I may be yet: the worst is not so long as we can say ‘This is the worst.” The one day Judiciary hearing for Kavanaugh […]

  Brett Kavanaugh stands accused of an attempted rape that occurred 36 years ago when he was 17 and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, was 15. Kavanaugh has denied the action: “I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.” He has agreed to testify under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee. There is no wiggle room in his […]