A Boy's Will
My longtime friend Douglas Imbrogno issued a public challenge the other day, and not for the first time, to get us both working on the performance of a song we've loved since we were young boys with o…
Weeping, Wailing and Wonder: I cannot fathom what you are thinking
Wake up, America! Coffee's on, March winds are blowin' like stink, and every Republican senator in Congress has now betrayed you by denying you at least three times before the rooster crowed. You now …
In humble praise of The Fourth Estate
When Dick the Butcher said "first thing, let's kill all the lawyers," you can be pretty sure the journalists weren't far down his list. I practiced journalism for about a quarter of a century. I wasn'…
Weeping, Wailing and Wonder: The global and local politics of empathy, ethics and resistance
[Editor's note: This amended essay was published first at WestVirginiaville, a site created and curated and by my friend Douglas Imbrogno. He does good work. I hope you'll support it.] This is about u…