Lilac season: A delightful few weeks of garden splendor
May 25, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, May 24, 2023 Bitter cold winters seem to be shrinking, getting warmer and less burdened with snow, dreary as ever but a pale
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!
Novel
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.”
Vanishing winter
May 15, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, May 11, 2023 The season between fall and spring, formerly known as winter, is due for a reassessment. That’s because there hardly is
Remembering Evanston’s ‘splendid’ Nazi resister
April 26, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, April 25,2023 After the second world war, Traute Lafrenz Page didn’t talk much about her heroic resistance to the Nazi regime in her
The key to a healthier, happier life
April 11, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, April 7, 2023 One of the most thorough studies of human development ever conducted, based on an 85-year multi-generational study of thousands of
In the stands and in life, the Liss family shows up for Hank
March 25, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, March 25, 2023 When I asked Evanston Township High School senior Hank Liss to pose for a photo on the baseball diamond, the
Evanston’s sweet spot
March 25, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, March 7, 2023 Jean Kroll comes from a long line of entrepreneurs. Her great-grandfather on her mother’s side owned and operated movie theaters
The bully in the bird feeder
February 24, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 22, 2023 A year or two ago we bought a clear plastic bird feeder and attached it outside on our family room
The happiest place on earth
February 3, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 2, 2023 There are lots of claimants to the title. Of course, it has been said of Disneyland so often I’m surprised
The Write Stuff
January 23, 2023
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 18, 2023 Along with the winter solstice come annual new year resolutions, a tradition said to be thousands of years old. The