My daughter danced at Pulse nightclub in Orlando a number of times before a crazed gunman opened fire last year. She called each local friend as we waited for word on the victims, hoping each would just pick up, pick up, pick up. We waited for the list of the dead after it was over. […]
Read More →Monuments are artistic things that we, the living, put up to honor our past. A big tombstone suggests that the dead guy was important. Medium-sized tombstones mean a person was loved. Tiny tombstones suggest a pauper passed on. How important was someone? Look at the size and expense of his monument. As a result, the […]
Read More →Writers want our words back. Politicians, advertisers and advocacy groups stole perfectly good words, twisted meanings and left us in an awkward position: We can’t talk about certain topics because we don’t have the tools to say what we mean. “Freedom of speech” doesn’t work without the “speech” part. “Fake news” is the latest. It […]
Read More →Originally appeared in The Orlando Sentinel, June 26, 2017, with a headline that sounded a tad more pro-Trump. A lot of people support Donald Trump, and here’s what liberals don’t get: Many, many people’s lives – largely but not exclusively in rural areas – have deteriorated over the past 20 years. In every political campaign, […]
Read More →My kid – my 31-year-old “kid” – co-directed a movie that, so far, is showing at film festivals in Toronto, Tel Aviv, Seattle and Provincetown. I attended the Seattle premiere last week, saw it twice on the big screen, and was impressed. Is my rave review of Susanne Bartsch: On Top the result of “It’s […]
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