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Heavenly Bacon . . . or Sky Bacon?
Tocino del Cielo is a Cuban version of Flan that is incredibly thick and rich. I've always used two translations of the Spanish to English. How would you translate it, and I don't mean just literally?
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Not So Tough Now, Are We?
A nearly 40-year-old reminiscence of time I spent in Cuba. I learned another lesson in how those who appear to be your friend can turn out to be anything but.
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You’re Privileged to be Playing the Game
White privilege is an interesting and important subject. My past political activity brought it to my attention nearly 40 years ago. I've also written about it some, but John Scalzi has written an...
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When The World Almost Ended
The Cuban Missile Crisis came up in a short conversation I had with my 14-year-old daughter yesterday. She knew little about it but was somewhat aware of the Cold War. The conversation, however,...
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Racism & Bigotry Aren’t Quite the Same
I wrote the following four paragraphs a couple of days ago. Today (8/19/17) I ran them through the Hemingway app, which informed me the text’s readability score was 11th grade. It also pointed out...
View ArticleThe Irony is as Thick as the Karma
When I returned from a two-month working journey to Cuba in 1973, the FBI showed up at my door with questions about my trip. I had been a member of the sixth contingent of the Venceremos Brigade, and a...
View ArticleThe Farmdale Boyz
Mostly memorializing an old photo and the circumstances surrounding it.
View ArticleLet’s Clean Our Own House!
I posted the following on Facebook late yesterday, partly in response to all the angst that’s being spit out by the chattering class about Bernie and Fidel: How come, when we talk about the suffering...
View ArticleChasing Agriculture
I arrived in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco at the tail end of the “Summer of Love.” It was either late August or very early September. Things were already starting to fall apart before I...
View ArticleRacism and Bigotry
Conflating racism with bigotry clouds the insidious nature of the former, and makes combating it much more difficult.
View ArticleFear of Sharing
Just fully realizing how not wanting to embarrass my family has hobbled me somewhat in my writing.
View ArticleMemories of the Sixties & Seventies
I'm not much of a collector, but I do have quite a few buttons and other items from my years in the peace & justice movement in the late sixties & early seventies. These are a few.
View ArticleA Limerick For Tedward
An original limerick inspired by the U.S. Senate's most disingenuous and execrable excuse for a public servant, Ted Cruz.
View ArticleViva La Revolución Cubana
Forty-nine years ago today I had the honor of marching through La Plaza De La Revolución as a member of the 6th contingent of the Venceremos Brigade. I got to listen to Fidel give one of his shorter...
View ArticleMemories of the Sixties & Seventies
I'm not much of a collector, but I do have quite a few buttons and other items from my years in the peace & justice movement in the late sixties & early seventies. These are a few.
View ArticleA Limerick For Tedward
An original limerick inspired by the U.S. Senate's most disingenuous and execrable excuse for a public servant, Ted Cruz.
View ArticleViva La Revolución Cubana
Forty-nine years ago today I had the honor of marching through La Plaza De La Revolución as a member of the 6th contingent of the Venceremos Brigade. I got to listen to Fidel give one of his shorter...
View ArticleI’m Counting On You
Dear GenZ: I need to tell you something. Although I’m a Boomer, I have a great deal of love and respect for your generation. One reason for this is because my wife and I became first-time, adoptive...
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