Hanging out with a badass Vermont biker clan known as the Guild, I am learning a ton about details and the step-by-step approach to restoring vintage motorcycles. You may be lucky enough to find them the way I did, by…
My childhood began to roll on the sidewalks of Dover Street on the north side of Chicago… and continued unrolling until 4th grade when we led the invasion of Wheeling, Illinois. Something brand new was infecting the surrounding farmland called…
Each year, The New Yorker magazine publishes a hundred or so poems that appear both in print and on the Web. In 2018, they brought forth something new, an online-only, multimedia poetry archive: Our Year in Poems by Hannah Aizenman. I am not…
Of course I signed up for a Writer’s Workshop entitled Good Naked. On Saturday morning, I take a flash-scan inventory of the participants waiting inside as I reach to open the glass door of the Burlington Writers Workshop. I instantly…
In January, Roger Watters submitted three poems for peer review at the Burlington Writers Workshop. Personal Trust is the first poem’s title. I start reading… I tried to justify my actions in my youth but there was none. No way…
I was gone on Sunday, October 29 when the windstorm hit Vermont. Hurricane-force winds swept through the entire state and were particularly strong in Chittenden County where I live. Winds atop Mt. Mansfield, which overlooks the town of Underhill were…
Set in Dublin on June 16, 1904, the events James Joyce chronicled in Ulysses detail a single day in the lives of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, which parallel the story of Homer’s Odyssey. “Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish…
Old Havana, July 10, 1986 Day One started out with a distinct lack of awareness that almost proved fatal. The pollution woke me up. My room, thirteen stories above the Malecon, a shoreline highway much like Chicago’s Outer Drive, seemed…
It reads like a screenplay and I hope it gets made into a feature film… The story of Rachel Klein, a teenaged Jewish girl in Amsterdam during the second World War, is the culmination of 13 years of investigation and…