The Art of Dying
June 30, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, June 28, 2018 Everything comes easier with practice, from skeet shooting to horseback riding to piano playing. It takes 10,000 hours, experts say,
It is a vanity project and a writing closet, a treasure chest for news, views and reviews.
More prosaically, it provides a store house for my writing. Some of it is quirky – poems, sayings and asides. There are movie and book reviews, profiles and other articles from my past and present sojourn as a journalist. Plus my new book — The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past!
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The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past
A thrilling, highly imaginative and tautly written journey back in time to find “the tool to unrule” a post-American fascism.
“Brilliant,” says National Book Award winner and MacArthur Genius Fellow Charles Johnson of “The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past.”
“A great tale, brilliantly told,” says violist and international recording artist Roger Chase. “There are surprises on every page, and the end, which comes only too soon, is a coda of marvelous drama, invention and imagination.”
Eating is Forever
June 14, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, June 14, 2018 Food, why do you love me so? Sadly, you go right to my heart—and my waistline. It’s not because you
In the Year 2118
June 3, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, May 31, 2018 Among the gregarious and hilarious regulars at the men’s locker room at the McGaw YMCA, where we regularly consider the
City to Launch Summer Program on Nonviolence for ETHS Students
June 3, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, May 31, 2018 What may be an important initiative to reduce youth violence in Evanston is being launched this summer. The Kingian Nonviolence
Yu, Me — and The Common Good
May 18, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, May 17, 2018 May 7 through 11 was Teacher Appreciation Week. Schoolteachers in Kentucky, West Virginia, Colorado and elsewhere may have been too
Device Advice
May 3, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, May 3, 2018 Good news: my nine-year-old grandson Ben sleeps over most Tuesday nights. His dog Juney sleeps over too. We all sleep
The Balm of ‘Gilead’ – A Reading Memoir
April 22, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, April 19, 2018 Maybe the luckiest thing that ever happened to me happened right at the start, in the genetic lottery at conception.
Miracle in the Making
April 6, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, April 5, 2018 In the war against polio, Rotary is winning. And unbeknownst to most Evanstonians, the PolioPlus global eradication campaign is directed
Third Coast Baroque Plays It Different
March 27, 2018
Evanston RoundTable, March 22, 2018 “We’re the new kid on the block,” says Evanston resident Angela Young Smucker, one of the founders of Third Coast