Read my review of Melissa Faye Greene’s ultimate book about adoption and parenting in general… Once that last child begins to drive, most of us realize our capacity to parent is fading. We get a few years of empty-nest freedom […]
Vicious Circles: Rejected Bit from Beautiful Morning Blues
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What is Going to Be Our Future?
“Confronted with a choice between saying no and saying yes, Americans are going to say yes — and in the process, show themselves and the world that America is still a place capable of reinventing itself.” Gary Kamiya. March 13, […]
Out of Admiration
“In fact, I would venture to predict that the number of Americans who will vote for Obama because he’s black — out of admiration for his achievements and character, to prove to themselves they’re not prejudiced, to prove to the […]
Pondering Baseball’s Purity
Go to Hitting with Wood to see my new baseball blog and to read my editorial published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on the metal bat controversy. Stay tuned for more commentary on racial confusion in America.
