japan

SADNESS AND AWE

Today I am very sad. Part of the reason is expressed in Bob Herbert’s final article in today’s New York Times which you can read here. As an American who is old enough to remember differen...

LIFE AS PARENTHESIS

I feel I am in the middle of a parenthesis. Part of it, I’m sure, is that I feel an emptiness inside me where Dr Katherine Brandt used to reside. ( she was the character I played in “33 Va...

LITTLE THINGS

I am on vacation. Like a lot of people, I woke up yesterday morning to see the horrific Images of the tsunami and earthquake devastating Japan. I learned of the explosion and potential meltdown of a J...