Books and Essays

Recourse

To begin to write about this present pandemic time is a challenge in tone as much as in content.

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Building

My son Ike is sick, and he wants to come “home,” out of the nursing home.

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To Uzbekistan and Back

Why Uzbekistan? When people asked, and they all did, I would say that I was concerned about income.

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A Concern with Space Leads Elsewhere

Much in my life is small, on purpose. Small apartment, small kitchen, and a small book by the coffee pot...

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What Really Happened

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No Apologies

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The Great Salvific Power

Prone to be a grinder, I am enticed by poetry toward the possibility that guardedness is over-rated...

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What Really Happened

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Summering

There comes a point when there will be no more good news.

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Here We All Are

I had feared he would not remember. I hug him and feel immediately relaxed and strangely secure.

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Paul Newman On Sixth Avenue

He kneels on the gray-black slate in front of the Jefferson Market, rendering blue eyes...

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Blue Peninsula

My son’s illness is eight years old and has no name.

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