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My family moved from England to the Republic of Panama in 1977, when I was seven, and my sister Tasha was five.  We had an enormous backyard with a pool, and beyond that was jungle bordering five other large properties.  My parents fought a lot so I spent most of my time outside. The heat and humidity were intense, and other expats warned my parents about bacteria in swimming pools, so my mom threw in extra chlorine tablets.  Our eyes burned, and our bathing suits faded and f

I’ve only had an employer once. That was in 1976 as a playwright for an experimental theater company in New Orleans. My payment was $50 a week. I had helped write a grant to the National Science Foundation for a play about science based on the invention of clear and colorless glass in Venice in the Fifteenth Century. Amongst other changes, this invention led to the telescope, microscope, mirrors, and light in the home through the mass production of glass windows; generally up

Trick or treat is a binary choice. Binary choices are inevitable; but create division, leaving you in one camp or the other. Either or. Blue or Red. What I am against, decides what the world thinks I am for.                   My brother Butch is many things, including intellectually disabled. He just moved into a supervised home. Getting him approved for that level of benefits took years. Years , despite being the son of a military veteran left permanently disabled by a WWII

1.  My dream of visiting the Sahara came true in Erg Chebbi, Morocco. Our guide Daoud called himself a driver, yet without his guiding I...