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  • Taliban Thinking

    I think there is much truth to the idea that when you deal with a Nazi, an unregenerate Nazi, reasoning, persuasion, common sense and pleading count for nothing. After all the movies you and I have seen, all the documentaries about the Holocaust over the decades you realize that the…

  • He Just Writes

    After forty-two years I decided to return to psychotherapy. It was not a decision, says the cliché, that was easily arrived at. I can share, which is my nature, some of what motivated me to do so. Some feelings I will keep to myself where they mostly belong. Last year was one…

  • On Teaching Writing

    If all goes well, I will be teaching a course in writing in spring 2014. Through some self-promoting and hustling what I can offer as a writer, I got the go ahead from an administrator. If there are enough registrants for the course, it is on. So I have been giving it…

  • Why I Write

    The blurb “About OLLI” reads: “The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas…is a member-led, vibrant learning community of more than 1,300 retired and semi-retired adults…Our classes are purely for enjoyment — there are no tests, grades, or credits. Prior college experience is not required, only…