This is Part 1 of a 3 part posting which will be published over the next few weeks
It’s February, 1980, and David Gordon is standing in front of a class of delinquent kids in a South Brooklyn juvenile detention center trying to teach reading. While patiently guiding them through a short story called “Young Pablo [...]
As a first-timer, the surrealiality of life in the hospital was not lost on me. I had managed to go 57 years without a single overnight stay (with the exception of my debut back in Lafayette, Indiana in the winter of 1951). Now here I was flat on my back in a ward with three [...]
Letter writing, real letter writing, the kind of letter writing that gets saved by the recipient, not for posterity as an historical missive or a great literary creation, although many letters have been given this status, but as a remembrance, is not practiced as it once was. Progress has replaced pen and paper with technology.
The [...]
A hazy morning just before six. The clean-up crew starts washing away the greasy residue left over from last nights gritty revelry. Police horns leave jagged echoes preparing for daylight, and the dollar toting tourist are headed to Union Square.
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Fog laden San Francisco, rolling hills and the home of the original forty-niners. Frisco, the Hobart, [...]
Clever Hans was a horse owned by German schoolteacher Herr Von Osten. Towards the end of the 19th century Herr Von Osten, who was also a keen horse trainer, decided to try and teach Hans mathematics.
Before very long Hans was touring Germany demonstrating his abilities not only with very basic math, but with fractions, telling [...]
