“The Bear in the Back” from Tales of the Ixat
THE BEAR IN THE BACK I usually look back when they get in the cab. Just a quick glance is …
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Beautiful Souls: A Review
Some time ago I spent a weekend in the company of fellow Vietnam War resisters, trying to talk about what …
Enemies of the People: A Cambodian Recollection
The Cambodian documentary, Enemies of the People is a one man labor of collection and recollection 30 years after the …
War: A Head Spinning Spiral
Reading a wonderful book, Beautiful Souls:Saying No, Breaking Ranks and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times, by Eyal …
Your Mother Loved My Poems
Your mother loved my poems. That’s a killer, she would say. Her knees grew weak Her voice in smoke dark …
Toshi Seeger Gone
What a great woman and companion Toshi Seeger was! A good life lived. Toshi Seeger, whose husband the folk singer …
Hannah Arendt: A Movie, A Book
In this 50th year following the publication of Hannah Arendt’s troubled and troubling book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the …
The Joy of Old Age. (No Kidding.)
This site is not typically devoted to issues of aging; living is such a hunger in the writing and film …
Power: Decentralized and Centralizing All In One Net
We had the good fortune to wander into a Jason Lanier talk at Book Passages in Corte Madera a few …