The Guillotine Story

On Barbies, Marie Antoinette, and Being Left Home Alone

The guillotine was sitting on the kitchen table when I returned home from school that Spring day, left behind by my decade-older brother. It stood about 18" high, with a…

All Haste Comes from the Devil

It was another Saturday morning in front of the fish counter at my local supermarket. The regular clerk was there, spreading ice, putting out Great Neck Clams, and applying the finishing touches to a six-foot shrimp hoagie. “So what the hell do you want?” he asked in his…

Shipwrecked ~ the End of the 3' x 4' Popsicle Stick Galleon

Simple Investment Plans: If You Had No Silver Spoon In Your Mouth At Birth …..

And You Don't Own a…

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The very last secret in my father’s life came on slowly: teasing our family with that first shocking glimpse, leaving its clues scattered, then hiding…

Dann und Jetzt

Then and Now

Kristallnacht — preparation for holocaust

No GMOs! My County’s Win Against Monsanto

Suicide, Individualism and the World Soul

I recently attended a week-long session at the Jung Foundation in New York City that addressed trauma and narcissism in contemporary American culture. Though this is a quiet hub of reflection in an otherwise demanding city, we were never too far from the…

The Psychology of Terrorism, Revisited

I remember sitting in a lounge at Milan’s Malpensa International airport four days after the 9/11 attacks, waiting for a plane to New York. Retired newsman Walter Cronkite was also in the lounge, watching television like the rest of us. Some people asked him…

The Outside Lands Lineup and Your Age

The larger the font, the older you are.