It was '85 and this writer had been divorced for going on four years. I had my two young sons, 10 and 7, living with their mom and her boyfriend in Canarsie Brooklyn. I lived in this quaint attic apartment a half hour away from them in Elmont, Long Island, not too far...

Chris Hedges just wrote a powerful column on the great Scheerpost site entitled Grand Illusion. He calls America, our nation, a dying empire, similar to what transpired in most past empires. He mentions the vast Roman Empire and the 20th century Nazi Germany one. The...

We have always lived in a society that hinders mental health care instead of enabling it. Now, this writer is surely not a psychiatrist, but I did spend a night in a Holiday Inn Express. My experiences as a patient of Freudian psychoanalysis  40 years ago taught me,...

Just about this wintery time of year this writer can almost inhale the memories of 50+ years ago. Actually, it was January of '69 and we college students needed bread AKA money, moolah or dinero. Being 18 and single, vibrant and seeking female companionship always...

It was Christmastime 1984. He had been separated for three years and divorced one. It was a Saturday, and he always spent Saturday with his two sons. The oldest boy was nine and the younger one but six. He would drive in from his apartment forty minutes away and take...

Taking a bit from the 1974 hit movie Chinatown this writer can see comparisons that can almost blind you. Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski, with a Robert Towne script and starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, reveals so much about the power of the super rich....