Yom HaAtzmaut . . . Or Yawm an-Nakba?
2018-04-19 – Today was Yom HaAtzmaut—Israeli Independence Day (on the Hebrew calendar—May 14 on the English calendar). It marks the 70th anniversary of the formal founding of the State of […]
Author Archives: eightoh9
Small Houses, Big Houses
2018-04-16 – My dog Lefty likes to be in the way. That’s probably not the way he would put it. He would probably say that he likes to sleep in […]
Writing Fiction in the Age of Trump
2018-04-09 – I spent the weekend in an intensive two-day class on writing for musical theater at Chicago Dramatist Workshop. My project is a musical adaptation of my (unfinished) novel […]
The People Who Talk About Banning All Guns Are . . . Right Wingers!
2018-03-29 – There’s a lot of talk about banning guns on the internet in the nearly a week since the #MarchForOurLives. The surprising thing (or not) is that almost all […]
Ramblings on Saturday’s March
2018-03-26 – In early May of 1970 I went on my first protest march. I was 18 years old. The march was to protest the American bombing of Cambodia during […]
Let’s Not Lock All the Exits for Trumps’ Supporters
2018-03-20 – I’ve been having a running debate with fellow progressives about where we direct our outrage about the Trump administration. I’ve advocated going easy on the Trump voters while […]
Hamilton, or Why Politicians Can’t Be Trusted with Guns
2018-03-15 – Tweets are not the only way to over-communicate with great political (and self-destructive) effect. Once it took 140,000 characters to move a nation—or spill the beans on a […]
