Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

 Maus and Me You’ve probably been hearing a lot about Art Spiegelman’s book Maus recently.  His graphic memoir about the Holocaust was banne...

  Our First Year in Chicago After working for a year on a farm outside of Buffalo, New York, to pay off our passage to America from the refu...

 LOOKING FOR FUN IN THE PANDEMIC  One of the things I hate most about the pandemic (besides the fact that it’s killed millions around the wo...

  Gods  My God is God My God lives in heaven and He lives here In my heart and the hearts of those around me. His thoughts are pure and true...

Unhappy New Year? Let’s face it. 2021 was a mess. Despite the various vaccines and the masking restrictions and the social distancing, the p...

Happy Unthanksgiving and Happy Thanksgiving  You’ve heard this before, and you’ll probably hear it another hundred times this Thanksgiving H...

A Visit to the Emergency Room Stabbing pains in my right hip woke me up that Monday morning. I couldn’t stand or walk. I’ve had some pain th...