“I Question America”

I have written here before about the Greatest Generation, born between about 1909 and 1929 and celebrated for enduring the Continue reading →

P.S. Public (?) Education (?)

I posted here in April about Trump’s dismal choice of a Secretary of Education who neither knows nor cares about Continue reading →

P.S. “Not used in Bulletin. Put in file.” (1956)

In an earlier post and two essays I have written about my search-and-discovery experience of “Finding Claudia Jones,” the extraordinary Continue reading →

“School Choice”: DeVos v. Education

Much too often since the election of Donald Trump, I have felt a sickening sense of return to the 1950s. Continue reading →

For the Birds

I’ve been lucky enough to visit beautiful Sanibel Island on the Florida Gulf Coast for the last seven or eight Continue reading →

Coming of Age in the 1950s All Over Again

I’ve been reflecting here on coming of age in the 1950s, and on some of the extraordinary changes I’ve observed Continue reading →

P.S. We’re All Nasty Now

I posted “Generations“ in May 2015, when Bernie Sanders was a gleam in the eye of the Left, Jeb Bush Continue reading →

#Tech #Support

During my long-ago childhood I could never have imagined that a phone – a heavy, stable black object – would Continue reading →