“Given all these circumstances, about the only effective form of resistance the Jews in ghettos could exercise in the short run was to defeat the…
I must confess, with some distress, I have become a weather wimp. At the slightest suggestion, when there’s not even yet a question of a…
“That is what the wilderness was. It was not Egypt, not Israel, but the no-man’s-land between them. Liminal space is important not for what it…
The page sits, staring blankly as the pen hovers in the air, while three unfinished poems mock from the desktop. Inspiration has disappeared. The detective…
The thin bony branches of trees point their fingers upward, as clear sky allows the power of the sun to warm the air. Confident, a…
Time divided, then and now, things not done, today allowed, lives past, lives reinvented, friends lost, then reconnected, sparkling eyes and smiles once hidden, kindly…
After swimming in the Mediterranean Sea, seeing the lights of NYC, and viewing Picasso’s Iris, I got to check one more item off my bucket…
Who are you, young, blossoming woman? Are you a memory, a figment of the artist’s imagination, or a model who sat for hours? Your smile…
Someday, they will find me sitting with the smell of whiskey on my breath, my pen, having run out of its ink. Until then, I…
