My antiwar writing began in a theater. I was working on a new play and the antiwar movement of the 1960s came up in conversation. Several of the actors expressed amazement that there had been a determined movement to stop the war. One actor said something like “Wow! We just thought that all… Read More

A new wave is calling BS on you. Read More

When I first saw this Retro prompt, a David Sedaris essay* came to mind. Here, Sedaris laments the lack of worthwhile accessories for men. “[Accessories” for men aren’t nearly as interesting as women’s,” he writes. “I have no use for cuff links or suspenders, and while I’ll occasionally pick up a new tie, it hardly… Read More

Now we can begin anew. Read More

I wasn’t smitten by love or lust, but fame, especially when well-deserved, can be, well… awesome. Read More

I had no idea that part of me had come from this place, a California boardwalk town in the northern Sierras. I’d grown up in Massachusetts. Save for one trip to California when I was 10, I knew California as a distant, colorful place that gift packages materialized from, sent by my West Coast aunts… Read More

The darkness stretches away in a perfect circle. Read More

. . . a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already gone past. — Marcus Aurelius Read More

Ten years feels like an eternity at that age. Read More

Is this retirement? I ask. Nah. Read More