Lighting a Path
May 16, 2014
Death is nothing, and dying is the great spiritual journey to this acceptance.
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.”
Dress Code
May 16, 2014
Has there ever been a time when the mass of humanity looked more slovenly? Not really: even Neanderthals dressed better than we do. But there is a
Today’s Dystopic
May 7, 2014
In the future nearly all our retail spaces will be occupied by fast food franchises, health clinics, drug stores and banks. You can eat bad
Brief Dialogue on Death
April 27, 2014
“You’ve got to do things, try things, that seem frightening, that are frightening. Otherwise you’ll never grow. And you’ll never learn to die.” “Learn to
Adiana Strings Gets Upbeat Welcome
April 18, 2014
Evanston RoundTable, April 10, 2014 The new shop for the instrument rental company Adiana Quality String Instruments got off to a good start on April
30 Hours of Dancing Raises Record $1.38 Million at NU Dance Marathon
April 16, 2014
Evanston RoundTable, April 10, 2014 Northwestern’s 2014 Dance Marathon, held March 7-9 on the lakefront campus, raised a record-breaking total of $1.38 million. More than
City to Grow Pot at Ecology Center
March 30, 2014
Evanston RoundTable, March 27, 2014 By Herb Marley In a new and some would say “highly” drastic effort to reduce the City’s chronic budget deficit,
Lisa Flynn – Classical Music’s ‘Perfect Voice’
March 30, 2014
North Shore Weekend, March 29, 2014 At 9:50 a.m. Lisa Flynn, midday voice of classical music station WFMT, enters the studio, adjusts the microphone and