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Part I: Off Day [by Dean Smith]
Back and forth, back and forth– my one point of rest is the orange and black Orioles swinging nest! An off day in a pennant race is torture. Last evening, I paced the room mumbling…
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“Jewish farmers! Real farmers!” August Market Report [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Egg farm grading room, Vineland, NJ Surely this has happened to you: One day you have a knotty research question. You begin with, say, Wikipedia. You click on a footnote link, one click leads…
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Grief Canning [by Barbara Hamby]
Tomatoes, before and after (photos (c) Barbara Hamby) Four months before my mother died, I was visiting her in Honolulu. She had quit cooking, and I worried about her getting enough vegetables in her…
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Michael Leahy’s Group Portrait of the Dodgers in the 1960s [by David Lehman]
No self-respecting Dodger fan will want to overlook Michael Leahy's The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers (HarperCollins).Independent of the Dodger fan base, students of baseball history will…
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Young Lycidas: “Next Line, Please” Breaks New Ground [by David Lehman]
From the "Next Line, Please" corner of The American Scholar. A weekly challenge in verse. <<<< The prompt for this week—to rewrite two to six lines of Milton’s “Lycidas”—turned out to be one of…
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Some thoughts (and questions) on the Donald Trump statues and political caricature (by Laura Orem)
I've been very interested in the debate about the Donald Trump statues. Some find them offensive as fat-shaming, transphobic, or simply in bad taste. Others find them hilariously apt. I collected these 2-D caricatures…
