December 2011

“All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray,” once sang the Mamas and the Papas…Isaiah puts it differently and quite a bit more dramatically, ” Behold darkness covers the land; a deep gloom enshrouds the people. My father’s mantra to my brothers and me regarding curfew while we were teenagersRead More →

One of my favorite books as a child was a book entitled Gods and Heroes. It was an illustrated collection of Greek myths written for children. To this day I can see Zeus in my mind’s eye. My mother read it to us over and over until the cover finally fell apart. I stillRead More →

K and I were walking our dog towards British Park this past Sunday afternoon. It was a beautiful Fall afternoon. We walked by a vacant lot in which two men obviously homeless were standing in the middle of it eying it with puzzled disappointment, because the owner had bush-hogged all the underbrush so thatRead More →