What Do I Know?

A friend sent me a link to an audio program about the music of the Holocaust - music written and performed by concentration camp musicians. ...

This is a truly touchy topic all around.  I'm listing here some of the aspects that I feel are critical to understand (no, be aware of ...

I've avoided posting about the Israeli-Gaza war for a number of reasons. (The one exception is this post recommending folks watch the B...

 I try not to write about things getting saturation coverage if I don't think I have some insight no one else has shared.  Furthermore, ...

From Ursula LeGuin's No Time To Spare : "It's been two months since I blogged.  Considering that I am on the eve of my eighty-f...

[After sleeping on this, I've added a few thoughts on Crows are White .  They are [bracketed]]. Got to the museum a little late (gave up...

The Story of Gósta Berling  by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlof is the story of people in rural Sweden in the late 1800s.  People deal with...

Flying north to Anchorage from Seattle on a summer night is always cool.  It has been a while since we've done it.  It was dark and defi...

  I'm going to offer you the chapter "Cradle to Grave" from Louise Erdich's The Night Watchman . As I read it my body abso...