Author: Matt

  • NEVADA BOUND: A PARTING SALVO

    I have been involved within the last two weeks with selling Jane’s home, renting mine, garage sales, and collecting cartons from local stores — in Green Valley they break down the cartons within the store itself with a press. In my hey day we walked behind the drug store and…

  • Fragment from a Story that is not Working Out

    I raise my hand in cheder and ask the teacher: “Why are jews good at running?” “Because we are excellent prey and what good is prey if it does not give the hunter a good chase for his money?” “Rabbi, people tell me I am a good student. Why have…

  • I Have Been Away into Myself

    It has been some time since I have blogged, oh dear. The gravitational hold of the cyberspace audience awaits my every word. I have become quite bored with Facebook and Twitter is ridiculous — see Coppola’s The Conversation. I find it strange that part of my cortex is telling me…

  • “Mourning Without Empathy Leads To Madness.” — Winicott

    I have been away working on a new book of short stories dealing with the Holocaust. In part because it demands much more of me as a person and writer. I have to dig deeper into myself and I like digging into myself. It is not painful — it is,…