President Franklin Roosevelt

  • A friend commented the other day that he noticed I was shifting my attention. “You’re posting poetry. Are you writing more poems?” Actually, yes. I took a hiatus from poetry to write two novels, travel, paint, garden, and begin the descent into dizzying depths of health issues. The latter comes with aging and other contributing…

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  • PART ONE: DEFINING FASCISM Today, as I begin this essay that I envision to be written in three parts, is 24 April,  Yom HaShoah. This is Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day. We pause to remember The Night of state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of European Jews, political dissidents, homosexuals, the Romani people, intellectuals, and the disabled.…

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