Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

  Jan. 6: Insurrection or Picnic Let me say right off the bat that I think the January 6th events in Washington D.C. were an insurrection. T...

  On Henry David Thoreau’s 205th birthday  ME AND THOREAU AND MY DAD Thoreau is an author I love.  When my daughter was a kid, I would reel ...

 I Can’t Boogie Anymore! On June 22, I will be 74 years old, and as you can imagine I’ve been thinking a lot about aging recently and about ...

Do we learn from history?  As my mother – a woman who lived through a lot of history – would say, "That's the question."   I’v...

 THIS IS NOT NORMAL My daughter Lillian is an elementary school principal.  She wrote something a couple days ago in response to the school ...

WHAT THE SISTERS TAUGHT US I received a letter recently from a fellow who frequently reads my columns in the Dziennik Zwiazkowy.  He was dis...

THE WAR GOES ON   Like you, I’m tired of hearing about Putin’s war against Ukraine.  It started two months ago on Monday, February 21, and e...