My mother Leah frequented the Durban Public Library in South Africa at least once a week. As the youngest child, I was often forced to tag along with her. I enjoyed those sessions. I used to haul out the dinosaur books or the big portfolio tomes about the pictorial history of World War One. I […]
2020 Election–Impressions and Reflections
America appears to be divided into three more or less equal parts, at least when it comes to the election results. Thus far, just under 78 million people voted for Biden; about 73 million voted for Trump and around 78 million of eligible voters didn’t vote at all.[1] It’s likely that a good number of […]
To Make New England Go Red
As I switched tabs on my computer back and forth between the documentary on Ancient Egypt and the election night results, my phone buzzed. It was my cousin informing me that Trump was leading in Rhode Island. What? I asked, shocked. How? The map I was looking at had all of New England in blue. […]
John Brown—“one of the most clear-sighted and courageous patriots our nation has ever produced”
An Interview with Marty Brown Marty Brown is a descendant of Jason Brown, one of John Brown’s children. She lives in Portland, Oregon. We contacted her after we read a letter that she had written to The New Yorker which challenged the assumption that the novel Good Lord Bird and the new TV series based […]
What Does Religion Have to Do with It?
My question is prompted by the nomination and likely approval of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court and the reactions to that. She is, without question, a conservative. Some ascribe that conservatism to her deeply held religious beliefs. Some believe that those beliefs make her unqualified while others all but completely hold the opposite […]
Comix notes around Covid-19
I started these “comix notes around Covid-19” at the beginning of the pandemic in France. It wasn’t about finding fun situations in a very dramatic situation, but to offer remarks and thoughts on what’s happening to us. In the language of comics, with the format of a single page composed of 9 images. I use […]