Category: Commentary

  • Pollution and Palin

    I am convinced more than ever that we all need to turn off our TV sets. At the gym this old fart works out in, I get angry voices if I choose not to watch ESPN; after all, sports are the thing in a gymnasium, not news. I have to…

  • Staying Focused

    I see the years ahead of me, the shadows, the pinhole of light at the end and I endeavor on almost a daily basis to discover what it means to understand, to grasp, and to observe what I need to do as the days, weeks and years puddle together —…

  • Off The Grid: Discrepancies and Misgivings

    As I try to bring order once again to my life, I return to my writing. The second book of short stories, almost all new stories written these past few months, may go untested. That is, I may not send them out individually to online magazines for possible publication which…

  • The Center Holds, He Said, He Thinks

    I see myself disenthralled by angst and anxiety; things are going ahead; Mondays seem, of late, to be the days I get up and act on my fears, putting actions into place, engaging committed strangers, now becoming acquaintances. Hopefully in another two or three weeks all this might be an…