I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet I can't talk to people that I meet If I could see you now I'd try to make you sad somehow But I can't, so I'll cry instead Kudos to the Beatles for this passage from their 1964 song I'll Cry Instead. Obviously...

She was the oldest of three girls born right before WW1. A very smart kid, she excelled in grade school right through high school. Great with numbers, she was a natural to become an accountant. No way. Her father needed her to get to work and earn money to help the...

Now, most students of the early years of Nazi run Germany can see the truth of it all. Meaning how the far right wing of American political life took ideas from that horrific playbook. Reagan and co. decided to use blacks and browns living in our ghettos as the...

Sometimes you can almost inhale memories of the past, regardless of how long ago they were. Imagine, 55 years has flown through the time tunnel of this baby boomer's incarnation and it feels like yesterday. May 4th, 1970 was a very traumatic day for us anti war...

A great definition of evil is "the condition of being immoral, cruel, or bad, or an act of this type" This writer and his wife volunteered some years ago to deliver lunch for Meals on Wheels in our town. Most of our elderly neighbors were somewhat homebound and looked...

This writer recalls after the 9/11 horror speaking to an old friend who lived in Queens, NYC. The news was coming out about how the government was detaining Muslims ( many of them American citizens). It was similar to what ICE is currently doing for the Trump...