Superman would have weathered mandatory social distancing fine. He had his Fortress of Solitude, after all. Me? I have my…
There is creative compassion seeping through the new cyberspace of our present experience. Midnight, now illuminated by a thousand laptop…
This dreadful virus has been a jarring reminder of humans constantly having to play catch-up to those occasions when nature…
P, conducting his virtual seminar on American lit in Paris, announces that he is finished with Thoreau and is about…
Dear Matthew, I realize that I don’t put pen to paper often when communicating with you, but I think now…
We are all quarantined now, with the temptation to be quarrelsome. Many of us are stuck in close quarters with…
Returning to my e-pen-pal P, with his American lit seminar in Paris, France, I write him, okay, if you insist,…
It was not supposed to end this way. Just three weeks ago, I was worrying about midterm exams, spring break…
It’s easy to teach even the minimally alert pooch to sit, stay. This is much more difficult with human beings…
