Stay safe. Stay well.
Most of my emails and phone calls in 2020 have ended with urging “Stay safe. Stay well.” So I end…
Category: Moving forward
Saba Saba
Saba is the Swahili word for “seven.” Saba Saba, July 7, the 7th day of the 7th month is a…
Merry Christmas!
Four years ago I wrote a post titled “Christmas is a season for ghosts.” In it I mentioned that I…
Mr Ken
The last time I posted about Philly Thrive at the beginning of August, it was shortly after the victory in…
Sometimes you win some.
In what seems like a lifetime ago, back at the beginning of February before the pandemic lockdown, I wrote about…
Meditative activism
Bright sunny day in Philadelphia today (February 9, 2020). But cold in the shade. That’s where we were this afternoon…
Fighting for the right to breathe.
Just before we moved to Philadelphia, there was a major explosion in the largest oil refinery on the East Coast….
The kindly idiot: part 2
In the incident from Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad related in the last post, a group of Russian soldiers on their way…
The kindly idiot: part 1.
In the middle of the countdown to our move, I learned that Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad had finally been published in…
Empty
Finished cleaning out the apartment in Princeton today. Turned over the keys and the parking pass and headed south…