Continue Reading Citizen Informants Esther Bejarano z”l, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz’s girl orchestra, died this weekend at age 96. A life-long fighter for…
Continue Reading Here. Not Here. In the two previous blogs I wondered about ways to predict the future and ways to remember the past. So it seems…
Continue Reading (S)elective History I’m coming back to the topic of truthful accounting of history because it matters. Any form of society that wants to function…
Continue Reading Intersections During the days of apocalyptic heat I vegetated on the sofa in the basement, reading books on my Kindle. Nothing too demanding,…
Continue Reading Brain Melt. 45 C. That’s it. That’s the blog. Signing off for the week until I can think again. Meantime let’s listen to snow…
Continue Reading Punch Shakespeare The temperature for the next days will be 111 F/43.88 C degrees at the highest point. In June. In the Pacific Northwest….
Continue Reading The Punch of Words Today I’ll offer a random sampling of words that came across my desk in the last few days eliciting feelings – disgust,…
Continue Reading The Punch of Numbers Do you know that feeling when you are focused on a particular thing and all of sudden you have experiences that are…
Continue Reading Crossbones Well, I lived to tell the tale. For a moment, though, I thought I’d succumb to a heart attack. Here I am,…
Continue Reading Cross Roads If you had asked me some months ago what Critical Race Theory is, the likely answer would have been, “Huh?” These days,…
