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For those who are not reading the comments, whether at the blog site, or through the “Comments RSS,”  I was asked last week, in response to my last posting, what the difference was between “bearing witness” and “simply observing something.”  It’s … Continue reading →

I am trying to clean off my desk; I mean truly clean off my desk.  So I decided to take today and not get distracted and really make that happen.  But then while eating breakfast,  I read an Op-Ed article … Continue reading →

I ended last week, as many people my age spend far too much time doing, going to a wake and funeral.  My Uncle Mike was only seven years older than me and because of that we never thought of him … Continue reading →

Some time ago, a prisoner I met went to some effort to explain to me that the media stories about male prisoners being raped were greatly exaggerated and things had changed in prisons very much since the days of “Fortune … Continue reading →

Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for the NY Times, has written often about the commercial sexual exploitation of children, both domestic and international. I have quoted him for the title of this post. Last Monday, he wrote his latest column on … Continue reading →

Two weeks from this evening, and the same day of the week this year as back then, will mark exactly forty five years since I last saw my mother. She, with my father, went out that evening to a party. … Continue reading →

I took a long time to decide to begin this blog because I was afraid that I would very quickly run out of things to say. For the past two weeks or so, since the last post, that’s an issue … Continue reading →

Earlier in the week there was a thought provoking letter in the NY Times. Professor Dena Davis insists that in countries with less than full democracies, the mindset is that President Obama could not only have stopped the Koran burning … Continue reading →

I was reminded last week of a belief I hold that held me in good stead when my kids were younger and taking all things to the extremes that they did.  There were times when some one or another of … Continue reading →

Years ago, after a serious back operation, my son Gilbert got very very sick. It was touch and go for a while and it was very scary.  I remember calling my aunt from the hospital every day…. I was 33 … Continue reading →