Looking back on my early theater career, I realize now that Carol Channing was the first in a line of “great ladies” I would get to meet. The sad...
We don’t like change … even though change is inevitable. Sometimes it takes a 2-by-4 up alongside the head to get our attention. And then we “see...
Optimism about the future is wishful thinking… Most of us are familiar with the cartoon figure carrying a sign proclaiming “The end is near” and...
In her last ever book “No Time to Spare,” Ursula Le Guin writes that if someone asked her if she believed in evolution, she would answer “No.” As a...
According to legend, Clement Clarke Moore wrote his immortal poem, “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (also known as “The Night Before Christmas”) for his...
Several years ago, I finally “got it” that both the Democrats and the Republicans constituted a duopoly entangled in a self-serving collusion that...
It is very difficult to admit you have been wrong about another person whose values you deplore, especially if that person is the president of the...
I’m back in Iowa City on the campus of the University of Iowa to again participate in the UI’s excellent Summer Writing Festival. I find myself...
No one can argue with David Kempf’s observation (Letters, May 2) that “the earth is 4.5 billion years old and has survived anything you can think...
I recently wrote about Ariel Leve’s essay in The Guardian in which she said “When facts and truth are being discredited, how is it possible to know...
Rarely a television viewer in the past, I now find myself addicted to watching MSNBC and FOX News each night hoping to find some rational...
There are many reasons that prove Donald J. Trump is not only completely unqualified to be president of the United States, but is also a threat to...