There are October mornings in The Woodlands when the watery Mid-Atlantic sky still burns with a white-hot sun even though summer is long gone. Clouds explode in smoking bursts, stilled just slightly by the strange heat of the autumn stratosphere. […]
“An Illumination that Works,” From Dawn of the Summertons: A Work in Progress
Nine miles away, in the northwestern section of the city, Twyla Summerton was trying to keep herself from rushing the painting she’d been working on for nearly a week. She had a yoga class at 9:00 in Chestnut Hill and […]
Everyone Always Wants to Do the Cooking
Flash Fiction:Flash Read(not copyrighted; if you want it, use it…even if you want to put your name on it) Original fiction by David Biddle Steve is out buying hotdogs, buns, carrots, more beer, and ice cream. It’s a long way […]
Of Divides and Color: 2009 and Beyond
In a commentary piece for The Philadelphia Inquirer last week (Friday, November 6), columnist George Curry uses USA Today/Gallup poll data to paint a bleak picture of America’s sense of “race relations.” Noting that when Barack Obama was elected president […]
Comments on Leonard Peltier
I am honored to find that John Trimbach, son of retired special agent in charge (SAC) of the Minnesota FBI offices, Joseph Trimbach, posted a letter to the editor regarding my commentary piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Leonard Peltier’s […]
Leonard Peltier: a personal essay
My latest commentary was just published by KotoriMagazine.com, “Leonard Peltier and this Great, Funny Nation.” It is really a personal essay, but full of good links and resources. “To give Leonard Peltier the last decade or two of his life […]
Something More
Something More (for Marion, October 13, 2009) An older man with dark featuresAnd an older woman – long brown hair,Luminous eyes, blue likeA cloudless autumn sky –Sit in an old wood bed together.As the audience, we are tired.They have been […]
David Mamet on Race
Today’s New York Times contains an excellent essay by the playwright David Mamet called “We Can’t Stop Talking About Race in America.” The essay is part of The Times’ super-sized Arts & Leisure section cataloging all the new cultural events […]
Confessions of a FaceBook Commentor
On and off today, I took part in an interesting though distressing set of comments at a FaceBook site that were spurred by this weekend’s bizarre confrontation and arrest of Louis Henry Gates by Cambridge police. Mark Cohen, an erudite […]
