Kafka
I am looking, as I write of Kafka, at the photograph taken of him at the age of forty (my age)—it is 1924, as sweet and hopeful a year as he may ever have known…
Month: October 2016
Saturday Share the Wealth: The Last Two Months with Hedy Epstein
Local and global activist Hedy Epstein was diagnosed with cancer in early April of this year. She died at the age of 91 in late May. This week’s Share the Wealth will be stories by…
15 Reasons You Might Reconsider Your Boycott of Me and Resume Communication at Some Point in 2007 (But There Isn’t Any Reason to Rush or Anything)
I reminded you of Whitman, told you to read him BEFORE the morning news avalanche of expected accounts of horrific rapacities and Bush Administration deceptions and delusions, because we are larger, better than I thought;…
Dora, Leah, Bessie
Dora, Leah, & Bessie Salzman; circa 1910 (great-aunts and grandmother)
Tête-à-tête, Por Favor
Perry! “Welcome Back” isn’t going to cut it. We are going to have to have a tête-à-tête After carefully scrutinizing my extremely packed schedule, I have concluded that the following days are available for you to choose…