A lot of my intellectual friends (the sort of people who, with a dignified cough, announce that they do not "indulge in mass media entertainment," and other, less extreme types) repeatedly ask me why...
A few months ago I was standing in line at the post office talking to someone on the cell and every now and then I used an Urdu word. Sometimes when I speak Urdu, I say an English word with a FOB...
As I recall, the term “perfect storm” was coined in New England in October 1991, when several storm fronts merged to spectacularly clobber the coastline. Now, the American political system this...
Dear Readers, These two poems are presented here together, because they are meant to compliment one another. Mustapha Marrouchi is as glorious, and grave, as ever. It is a privilege to continue...
Of all the indignities one has to suffer on account of being publicly female, nothing irks me quite as much as being screamed at from of passing cars. Or so is the case as of late, anyway. Harassment...
I sat mesmerized as I watched Caroline and Ted Kennedy symbolically pass the torch of Camelot and all it represents to the loyal opposition, Barak Obama, the other day. I started out as a good...
in the courtyard-- box turtle and hummingbird last year's leaves marking my place in this year's book can we learn to look at what's there without needing more? in the bare bush by the bare tree by...
Sweet Jesus, Anne Applebaum, stereotype much? Of course there were many very famous "sultry" women in the USSR - things did not begin, and end, with Stalin and Liubov Orlova (an actress from the...
This is where this particular story starts: I was listening to my iPod, and I had set it to shuffle. I don’t necessarily like the shuffle function. I resort to it. Some folks enjoy the surprise of...
The big city in nocturne light, still not all cold this winter. Our eyes pick up the melting night, Streaming out time with our river. For all those things that you forgot are rushing back to the...
