PRISMATIST

Unlike the lawyer Saul Goodman in the TV series Breaking Bad ... you can’t call Saul Alinsky.

For a couple of decades I had a job (well, a series of jobs) as a program evaluator for state legislatures.

It’s pretty frustrating, really. Just about every day there is a story in the formerly plausible news publications and websites ...

The cumulative effect of the past month’s assault on democracy and on the safety and welfare of our people weighs heavy on my heart ,,,

Arthur Saves 1987 SE Portland OR Morning Glory Cafe Astoria OR 2024 Picking for Memories I Remember - At 80

A response to signs posted in Canada

“One night Jerry got out of bed to go to the bathroom and he never returned...

For several centuries the world has usually had two major groups of states and a few minor ones. 

I have had a difficult time this week trying to write a single-topic column. There is just too much ...

Last year, we moved to “the Friendly City” of Harrisonburg, Virginia. But why "friendly?"

This is the title of a song by the wonderfully demented genius Tom Lehrer, but it seems to fit here ...

We’d started the trip one afternoon before ...

This summer Ann Louise and Peter d'Entremont of Durham, NC are spending two months touring Europe.

On the train from Valencia to Granada with a stopover in Cordoba.

It must be love.

One of the first, and I think most important things, for amuriccans to remember about this war is that it is not a Russian war

Are we going? Are we not going?

A visit to a public beach in Calabria leads to witnessing a woman's encounter with the god of the sea

My father was born in a fishing village in southwest Nova Scotia.

For the past several years I have spent a good deal of time on a rugged headland that juts into the Pacific Ocean