Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

  LABOR DAY Here's an old column I wrote for the Dziennik Zwiazkowy. It's about my Polish father and how hard he worked when he came...

  The 83rd Anniversary of the Start of World War II  My mother didn’t like to talk about the war. When I was a kid, I would ask her, and she...

  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 ...