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Fairyland: in Print and on Screen
Somehow, I’ve never met Alysia Abbott. She’s lived around the corner from me for more than a decade, in an octagon house set back to allow a most remarkable tree claim space. She’s been to my house, at a party … Continue reading
Heidi Blake on the Tate Brothers
If her credentials connote weight, Heidi Blake is no pushover. The reporter for Britain’s Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, and Buzzfeed has been a London-based investigative journalist for The New Yorker since 2022. Her article about Andrew and Tristan Tate, “A … Continue reading
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Tao of Lloyd
A guy doing ninety minutes of PT every day gets into podcasts, and the brightest gem I’ve discovered is “The Tao of Lloyd.” I’ve listened to every episode to date (approaching fifty, with a new one each week) and recently … Continue reading
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The Day I Became an Old Person
July 1, 2025—one year ago today—I became an old person. For some, aging may be an incremental process, and I sometimes discern creaking facility over time. But last July 1st, a seemingly innocuous event triggered a cacophony of health issues, … Continue reading
The Individual and the Cosmos
Fifty-two years ago was my last summer ‘at home.’ The term barely applies, since I returned to a place I’d never been before. I had completed my first year of college. My parents, who had already entered the instability that … Continue reading
Musings on Assimilation: Part Two
Something quite specific prompted last week’s rather generic musings on assimilation. The New Yorker article of May 25, 2026 by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, “In Plain Sight.” The article chronicles the saga of Djena, brought from Guinea at age ten, to serve … Continue reading
Musings on Assimilation: Part One
When immigrants arrive in the United States, or anywhere really, they bring the culture and lived experience of their native country with them. As they encounter the realities of a new nation, they must determine—sometimes consciously, more often through a … Continue reading
My Jericho Experience
For the past few years the most rewarding work I’ve done is with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. Attending parole hearings as an ombudsman, working one-on-one with inmates preparing for their parole hearings, meeting with recently paroled men through the … Continue reading
Say His Name
Israel Martinez: December 6, 1958 to April 30, 2026 The first time I met Israel Martinez, I realized he was a man of substance, a person wizened by experience and reflection. I was keen to assist him any way I … Continue reading
Serious Theater, Perfectly Executed
Oedipus el Rey Written by Luis AlfaroDirected by Loretta Greco The Huntington Roberts Studio Theatre May 14 – June 14, 2026 The power of our foundational stories; the myths, fables, and legends shared across time and culture; is rooted in … Continue reading
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