Our trip to Sicily was an amazing adventure, I will try and give some of the highlights of our trip, out of sequential order. I already related my finest trattoria experience and here is my initial impressions of Sicily. I was never in Sicily before so I was prepared for anything … so I thought.…
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Meal I: A parade of fish in Sicily
I have a lot of catching up to do in this blog. So look for some updates on music, film, wine, art and food. Here is the first of 4 entries of the 4 best meals I had ever had in my life. This one in a worker’s neighborhood in Sicily. One of the main…
Volume II of Goldberg Variations released!
I finally was able to release Volume II of The Goldberg Variations, The Redemption of the Damned. It is available now in paperback or ebook from Amazon, and from your local bookstore in a couple of weeks. The delays were beyond our control and the book had to outlive the ArnoLand Press which succumbed to…
LGBTQ and Christian Fundamentalists? One SDA man’s story of self-acceptence
There are many Christian Fundamenetalists who also happen to be homosexual, if not a member of the LGBTQ community. My late partner, Dr. Morris Taylor knows first hand the pain and suffering these people go through. He was a leader in the Seventh Day Adventist community. Below is the text of an address Dr. Taylor gave…
White Nausea
Related links: Jeffrey Robinson on White Supremacy White Fragility page Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide New York Review of Books Review of Ostler’s Surviving Genocide Washington Post’s review of White Fragility State of Indiana’s website info on Native Americans Native Languages site info on Indiana In the well-meaning and surprisingly banal book, White Fragility by Robin…
Depression in the Age of Trump
It is very hard to take that almost 50% of this country supports a blatantly incompetent president. No one has done more damage to America’s greatness and its reputation. Yet an alarming number of people continue to cheer him on. We’ve become the laughing stock of the foreign press. We are destroying our precious country’s…
The MAGA Suicides, the “Rise” of Racism and the coronavirus
I have been working diligently on preparing for the release of my upcoming Volume II of the Goldberg Variations. I apologize for the delay, but one of the minor sources of the delay is a writers block because I can’t seem to get something off my mind unless I write this post. As we know…
Sample Chapter Volume 1
For the prospective reader I thought it would be helpful to post a sample chapter. You can read the text below, or click here to hear me read it to you. Chapter 1: Jamie Goldberg Detroit, Michigan, Spring 1970 “I am sorry, Mrs. Goldberg, it is against the school rules.” Mrs. Bradford’s temples were pulsating.…
The Era of Incompetence: Black Lives Matter, but does the United States Government?
Since 2016, we’ve entered the Era of incompetence, or if you like, the Counter-Enlightenment (or if you prefer the Un-enlightentment or the Anti-Enlightenment). Science, Factual Knowledge, Rationality have been replaced by “Saying makes it so” neo-Medieval Do It Yourself Reality culture. Scientific facts, reality, reason, things we had taken for granted have been blatantly and…
In the Age of Trump what kind of Jew will You be?
Today our electoral college, our last line in defense of fascism will officially elect a fascist dictator to the US presidency. Our country is on the precipice of its final destruction as a democracy. An authoritarian regime is about to take over. One so completely divorced from democracy that they currently aim to harm the…