Category: Commentary

  • Autumn Leaves

    Here in Henderson, Nevada the summer heat has arrived with a vengeance, 106 to be exact and it will be like that on and off, I imagine, for weeks. When I open the front door I am met by a blast of air straight from a kiln. Luckily I am…

  • Slowly, Surely, Maybe Authentically

    About six stories from “Working Through the Holocaust” have been cyberspaced and two of them have been accepted for publication. Always exciting, is it not? to have stories published by online magazines, in this instance, before publication as a collection — I am much pleased. I still need to be…

  • Civilization and its Discontents

    There are times in reading Freud’s grimly pessimistic assessment that I come up against a personal stonewall.  His grasp of his own metaphysics and mastery of psychoanalysis can be stupefying especially when he applies his learnings about the individual analysand to the community at large, culture, civilzation, society, whatever term you…

  • Oh, Western Civilization

    In the back of my mind, now forwarded to the front optics, has been a long term fantasy. I intend to read many of the world classics I either avoided, chose not to read or delayed reading until I reached this dramatically telling age. Recently I spotted and then bought a…