Category: Culture
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Waiting for Messages from the Unconscious
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I am sitting here, waiting, registering myself, thinking, wondering what will ooze forth. Lately I’ve been having the uncomfortable sense that many of my stories sent to online literary editors, probably from ages 25 to 45, may not relate to the kind of stories I write. It is a false fear, I…
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The Expedited Age (copyright pending)
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Cameras have played a minuscule part of my life, but they have held my interest as a father and individual over the decades. I wrote an extendeded essay, “Cameras as Remembrances of Things Past,” which can be read on Subtletea.com, David Herrle, editor. It spoke of the cameras I’ve had…
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Colleagues
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Jane and I are working on two writing projects, a new book of essays that go back as far as 30 years ago and a book of short stories on the Holocaust that I have been working on for the past year. I have categorized parts of the essay book which consists…
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Boundaries
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I really don’t want to write again about Glenn Beck fulminating on Fox 5 views. As an old history major and secondary teacher of social studies for several years, I watched him this afternoon –one does not observe Beck, for he is as deep as a wall decal — take…