LA Times reporters Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart won a well-deserved Pulitzer for their excellent...
Writers and Writing
Social Justice Shorts: Striking kids….and Other Broken Systems
CALIFORNIA SUPREMES DECIDE WHETHER JUVENILES CAN GET “STRIKES.” Today, the California...
UPDIKE 1932 – 2009: Rabbit At Rest
A giant of literature. Although, along with Roth and Mailer, he has been one of the dominant...
A Birthday Gift for Edith
Activists take lead roles to reopen Burke’s failed monument I long ago gave up any hope that...
A MORTAGE-RELATED MUST READ….and an Update on Alan
Hi everyone. Alan has had computer issues. (There was the little matter of the coffee spillage...
Off to Vermont…..Alan Mittelstaedt Steps Brilliantly Into the Breach!
I’m taking off today for Bennington College in Vermont where it is very, very, very...