Expressing gratitude
January 16, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 23, 2024 One of the many wonderful features of the annual Thanksgiving holiday, in addition to the food and the company, is
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.”
Rx for health care access: Some initiatives that may help
January 16, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 21, 2024 Editor’s note: The first part of this series explored the supply-and-demand dynamics that help explain difficulty accessing doctors nationwide, and
The doctor can’t see you now: Is access to health care in crisis?
January 16, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 20, 2024 Editor’s note: This is the first article in a two-part series. When health care consultant Michael Millenson phoned Endeavor Health
How to process the Trump victory
January 16, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 6, 2024 Waking up this morning to read the election results provokes a number of thoughts. The first is the Chinese curse,
New book, movie emerge from talented Fiffer clan
January 16, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 18, 2024 Exciting news from the highly creative Fiffer clan, longtime northwest Evanston residents: When last heard from on these pages two years ago,
Running across Evanston
January 16, 2025
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 4, 2024 Looking for a way to brighten up and, in his words, “gamify” the tedium of training for a marathon, Evanstonian
Driving with George
October 4, 2024
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 4, 2024 It wasn’t a dream or a fantasy so much as a thought experiment: What if, sitting alongside me, inexplicably riding
Meals on Wheels faces financial turmoil as executive director departs
September 21, 2024
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 20,2024 Evanston-based nonprofit Meals on Wheels Northeastern Illinois is facing a severe financial crisis, and the meal delivery organization’s longtime leader has
There’s a riot going on!
August 16, 2024
Evanston RoundTable, August 14, 2024 Author’s note: This recollection of the 1968 Democratic National Convention was written some years after the events depicted took place,