{click for pdf} Another week of news of stealing: retired cops and firefighters, with the help of an ex-FBI agent, stealing from Social Security; JP Morgan Chase again caught more or less stealing; Frontline giving a look at the institutionalized… Read More ›
Revised September 2013 from Sequence 5 text, January 2004 [click for pdf] Sick, I went with my son, then two years old, to the drugstore in the village where we had a weekend house. It so happened that this… Read More ›
FROM NO SEQUENCE April 2008 It was said that an expert told him to play with his son. “I don’t do roughhousing,” he replied, and it was left at that. When it came time for him to die he asked… Read More ›
FROM SEQUENCE 2013 January 2013 I have made a friend at last? In November, I received, and posted with pleasure, a set of observations on the strange ways of people we might call petty ambitious bureaucrats. These observations were signed… Read More ›
FROM SEQUENCE 3 September 2001 Tiens, voilà une baffe. Maintenant tu sais pourquoi tu pleures,” more than one exasperated French mother has been known to say, as she slaps her whining child. “Here, now you’ve been slapped and know why… Read More ›
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 July 2012 Outside my apartment building are several basketball courts to which many men in their twenties come to play. Passing by, seeing the play, I have been struck by how often these men fail to get… Read More ›
FROM SEQUENCE 2 March 2000 (minor adjustments in 2016) For decades I have been fascinated by a particular Zen story. A young man climbs the steepest of steep mountains to reach the home of the wisest master of all…. Read More ›
