Late one summer, my world ended. I was ejected from my life and scrambled to find safe haven. I fled to my sanctuary, an island called Martha's Vineyard. You who read this might think that the...

I once thought that crocuses were a true sign of spring. If not crocuses then I could certainly rely on the calendar, the equinox on March 20-21. Nevertheless, on March 13, while spring was still rehearsing her glorious entrance, I was informed about the true nature of the end of...

Martha's Vineyard - home of the super rich. No. Martha's Vineyard is a working-class/middle class community. It has a large native-American community populated by the Wampanoag tribe -...

Tragedy unfolds in our country from the barrel of a gun every single day. One that will live in our hearts until infinity happened just before Christmas(!) when a crazed, "brilliant" boy shot and killed 26 people in a public school. Twenty of them were young children. He used a...

He was sick in Connecticut. He had a personality disorder. He was brilliant and that is why he killed. Oh. Children cease to exist. A child waves his magic wand and classmates disappear under a blanket of fire. We wring our hands. Our president cries on television, we...

As autumn tenderly gives a reprieve from a week of icy overtures that have prophesized winter's entrance, a gentle community gathers in history's architecture. Autumn...

We travel the world. We arrive in place. As the cacophony of ambition dies with the last vestiges of Hurricane Sandy we stand with a man who saved capitalism. Like Roosevelt before him, President Obama was reelected as our economy slowly stood on its knees wondering which way the wind...

I am cleaning my bathroom. Scrubbing. It is a dreary Brooklyn fall day, 1995. I fulfill my obligation. Suddenly, my body is infused with a feeling that is impossible to describe. I...

The table is set and nicely filled with the meal of the day. Ann sits, straight back, eyes blazing, joining her family in an enthusiastic discussion about civil rights. Ann is 15. It is...

How can I tell. How can I ever say. The love that animates the slightest gesture that the eye never sees, the ear never hears, the skin never feels. How do I slide into our heart where love radiates? I do not. I don't even try for it is our...

We forget the day after remembering. Memorial Day passes with parades, grave pronouncements, visits to unknown soldiers' tombs and so much more. We honor those who have served. We remember.

And we keep on forgetting. We forget the neighbor's son or daughter who signed up because they could not...

I am one of the lucky ones. While still forming eyes and ears at the age of nine, Elvis wriggled his hips across the world stage. At that moment I knew that my future laid in my jiggle. And so it goes. Then on the other side of the street,...

It happens. One day you are healthy, experiencing all of the mundane travails of life thinking this is good that is bad, but essentially clueless, when suddenly you enter your shadow. You are very sick. Family, friends, lover all fade from focus leaving you in the center of an empty...

On Sept. 17, 2011, as disgruntled currents formed a tsunami that descended upon Wall Street, I once again renewed my intimate acquaintance with a journey to oblivion. I was taken to the hospital delirious with fever, hardly alive, hallucinating. On Wall Street, thousands of disinherited citizens protested the black hole...

On January 2, 2008 a doctor who I had never seen before (nor since) gave me a drug to control my blood pressure. This drug is now known to be unstable and full of surprises. On January 3, 2008 I received my surprise in the form of intensely painful, life...

This is not art. This is not literature. Nor is it meticulously written, meant to please, driven to impress. I couldn't care less. This is my rant!

I am tired of listening to those who describe themselves as "progressive" bellyache about President Obama and his lack of balls. Of...

As the sun labors to rise above the horizon, I join my neighbors on the precipice of a crater. We peer into the abyss, sleepwalking towards oblivion as Congress fiddles silence that may soon replace the cacophony of dissonance heard in its halls and byways. What do we see when...

New York City exhales. Gone is the undertow of spring's willy nilly presentation. Cool one day, brutally hot the next while our house builds layer upon layer of...

Life tortures love. This lesson permeates my soul as I move forward against the tide. I wake up recognizing that my breath conflicts with my heart. The moment of pain begins with one eye opened, one eye closed. At that moment war with my molecules is infinite. It wasn't always...

On this 20th day in March at approximately 7:21 p.m. Winter graciously bows and floats away from the northern hemisphere leaving the stage to Spring. This has not been an easy transition. The two...