The Saturday after the Paris attacks I watched football as usual, but also for a little normalcy, a break from apprehension and sorrow. The game I saw was ideal for that purpose: Michigan vs. Indiana, taking me back to my home turf and calling up memories of football Saturdays in Ann Arbor 40 years ago.… Continue reading This land is their land
Category: War
New short fiction about a very long war
I've published another short story on Amazon, and not a humorous piece like "The Fourteenth Pelican" this time. “A New Grateful Nation” is about people coming back from our country's longest war, but for whom it's not over just yet. It's also about those who've been fighting equally important battles on the homefront all along.… Continue reading New short fiction about a very long war
A dozen years on
Halfway to work on the MARTA train, I remembered the date. I’d gotten on a public transit system in a major city without giving it a second thought. But in my building downtown, on the 18th floor, I couldn’t help but glance a bit anxiously out the window. Into that same blue sky. That morning,… Continue reading A dozen years on
Period present
I wish I could take my mother to see the new movie about Lincoln. I’ll never forget the night when we watched the segment of Ken Burns’ “Civil War” that included the Gettysburg Address, and the version Sam Waterston read was somehow different than...