Cold War Summer
Cold War SummerLet’s drop a bomb.Why shouldn’t we drop a bomb?Now is the time for itWhile we are youngLet’s drop a bomb. Suzy Cohen’s mother’s voice boomed out at us through her kitchen window as we played in her rocky…
Fourth Street Positively –
By the summer of 1968, smoking marijuana with my friends had become a tired ritual. Each hot and empty night followed the previous one in an endless cycle of semi-suburban tedium. First, my fifteen year old girlfriends and I would…
Coming Apart – Coming Together
Recently, my therapist, the Jungian analyst Angelo Spoto, told me a story he had heard about James Hillman. At age sixty-five, Hillman had set off to visit his 85 year old father. At this time in Hillman’s life, he was…
How to Retire With Joy: For Carolyn and all of my friends who have walked away from the classrooms they loved.
First, have no plan.I know how hard that will be for you, given that for almost forty years of your life, you not only had a plan but were the one who created and implemented the plan for everyone else-…