Mother’s Day 2020
I LOVE MY MOTHER. I wish she were dead. Those are the hardest five words I have ever written. Let me explain. My 97-year-old mother’s heart still beats, but she Continue reading
Category: Essays
Cellphone Cameras and Visual Art
CELLPHONE CAMERAS AND VISUAL ART Here is the talk I gave at the Robert Floyd Photo Gallery in Southampton, Mass., February 25, 2018: WE ARE LIVING in an age of rapid Continue reading
Twilight Zone
TWILIGHT ZONE, from Feeling the Heat For many years, with the aid of Vinny, a gentle but persistent Siamese cat, I would wake up sometime between 5 a.m. and 6 Continue reading
iPad, or Pasta?
iPAD, OR PASTA? from Feeling the Heat I was one of the last people in the western hemisphere to get a cell phone. I was always practical, waiting for other Continue reading
Quaker Meeting
QUAKER MEETING IT WAS AS IF my late grandfather were sitting there next to me. I was at a Quaker meeting in the outdoor tabernacle at Laurel Park on a Continue reading
