Being alive, I have learned, means bearing a certain responsibility to the dead. I didn’t know Lester Afflick well; I saw him occasionally at parties in the East Village in the 90s. Then suddenly Lester died, in 2000. Since then, I had forgotten about him, until I ran into Ruth Siekevitz at a party last […]
Caught Between A Rock And A Hardplace, The Lesson I Had To Re-learn
I have been writing on and off for the past 12 years or so. My friends, or those that consider me a friend, who have read my writings good and bad, describe me as a very opinionated, yet, open-minded, and prolific person, and writer, a free thinker if you will, who is more than capable, […]
Radio: A Performance
I delivered the following speech on April 23 at the Inquiring Mind Bookstore and Café in Saugerties, New York: One of my largest intellectual influences is radio. Yes, you heard me right — I said "radio." Right now, I live deep in the Catskills Mountains, in the district where Boy Scouts go on hikes […]
Where To Get Article Ideas
A friend and I were talking the other day about writing. He liked to write, but even so his biggest problem was finding things to write about. My friend was astounded at the volume of writing that I do – at least one article and something as many as six, per day. Where do I […]