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1. Write at Your Own Risk » reviews

When a newspaper that formerly rejected pro-Palestinian Letters to the Editor appears to have changed its policy, submitting a letter may do more harm than good. (Ch. 4: Persistence pays off! After only, um, nine months...)

Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 4 - Words: 5,043 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 7-20-04 - Published: 10-31-03

2. Seeking Justice for Rachel Corrie reviews

Today is the anniversary of the death of a young American at the hands of the Israeli military.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 696 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-16-04 - Published: 3-16-04

3. Geneva Discord

My comments on the recently publicized "Geneva Accord," a model peace plan drafted by private citizens of Israel and the Occupied Territories.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 749 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-7-03 - Published: 12-7-03

4. What's Past Is Prologue

An essay on the background of the Palestinian conflict, including a number of facts I haven't mentioned before.

Essay - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,927 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-4-03 - Published: 12-4-03

5. We'll Never Forget Where We Were reviews

For Americans old enough to remember it, the assassination of John F. Kennedy was a life-altering trauma comparable only to the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 895 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-22-03 - Published: 11-22-03

6. In the Beginning reviews

Was rejection of the U.N.'s 1947 partition plan by the Palestinian Arabs an offense for which they deserve to be punished?

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 887 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-31-03 - Published: 10-31-03

7. Settling the Issue reviews

Do Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories really violate the Fourth Geneva Convention? Here's what I concluded, and why.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,912 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-21-03 - Published: 10-21-03

8. The Promise That Never Was reviews

A look at what Britain promised-or more accurately, didn't promise-Jews in the Balfour Declaration.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 697 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-21-03 - Published: 10-21-03

9. Review of 2003 Dark Shadows Festival

The title says it all...except that the "Festival" is a convention, and Dark Shadows is a cult-hit TV series that originally aired from 1966 through 1971.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,422 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-19-03 - Published: 9-19-03

10. The Sacrifice reviews

A short-short about a protagonist faced with a difficult decision.

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 402 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-15-03 - Published: 9-15-03

11. The Bitter Truth

An attempt to summarize, in one chapter, key points in the background of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and how I've come to view it. (I'm pro-Palestinian.) Some sections have been posted before, others have not.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,870 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-7-03 - Published: 9-7-03

12. Lost in the Dead Zone » reviews

The lost has been found! The lost episode of "The Dead Zone," dealing with the hunt for bin Laden, aired July 27, 2003. Read my original essay, plus my reviews of the episode and story treatment; spoilers in all chapters!

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 3 - Words: 4,573 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-24-03 - Published: 4-23-03

13. Israel: A Stolen Home » reviews

Frequently updated essay on why I, an American in my sixties, have recently come to oppose the existence of Israel. (Yes, I've added yet another chapter, responding to feedback and including some interesting statistics.)

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 8 - Words: 11,010 - Reviews: 17 - Updated: 8-11-03 - Published: 2-19-03

14. Reading the Road Map » reviews

Whatever Israel may claim, nothing in the Road Map requires the Palestinians to dismantle Hamas or Islamic Jihad. A second chapter discusses other issues.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,955 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-10-03 - Published: 7-6-03

15. Changing Times at Collinwood »

Two Dark Shadows plot analysis essays, in which I attempt to make sense of some of the changes brought about by time travelers in 1897 and 1840.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,481 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-4-03 - Published: 5-4-03

16. The Metamorphosis of Mansfield Square »

A Dark Shadows essay, tracing the antecedents of the show's first and most famous time travel sequence to two classic movies and a never-completed novel.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 4,965 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-2-03 - Published: 5-2-03

17. Another World of Dark Shadows

A Dark Shadows essay devoted to the excellent comic strip that appeared in 1971-72.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 734 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-28-03 - Published: 4-28-03

18. The Beginning and the End of the World

A Dark Shadows essay, evaluating two sources that purport to tell us what the series' writers had in mind as they began and ended the saga of the Collins family.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,196 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-28-03 - Published: 4-28-03

19. Reviews of Past Dark Shadows Festivals »

In light of the distressing news that the 2003 Dark Shadows Festival is planned as the last, I've decided to post my Reviews of some of the previous Fests. A poor record of a wondrous chapter in DS fans' lives!

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 6 - Words: 8,782 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-27-03 - Published: 4-27-03

20. Apocalypse Now? reviews

It's April 4, 2003. The U.S. has precipitated an illegal, immoral war in the Middle East. Here's one vision of what may happen.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 304 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 4-4-03 - Published: 4-4-03

21. Land of the Weeping Sun reviews

A child's drawing is the last straw that drives a woman to a desperate act.

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 698 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-3-03 - Published: 12-28-02

22. Severe Acute Respiratory Weapon? reviews

A nasty speculation about the origin of SARS.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 443 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-29-03 - Published: 3-29-03

23. Thirty Pieces of Silver

Thoughts on the reported payment of a $27 million reward to an al-Qaida traitor who betrayed Khalid Mohammed.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 708 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-29-03 - Published: 3-29-03

24. It's a Puzzlement reviews

Where, oh where are Iraq's chemical weapons? Here's one theory as to why those notorious weapons haven't been used...or found.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 763 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 3-29-03 - Published: 3-29-03

25. Scenes in the Shadows

Three different guesses at Osama bin Laden's whereabouts and reaction when he learned of Khalid Mohammed's capture. Important: This is purely a work of imaginative fiction!

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,037 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-23-03 - Published: 3-10-03

26. Martyrdom

Is this one possible fate of Osama bin Laden? A cautionary tale...

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,142 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-23-03 - Published: 7-15-02

27. Maybe, Just Maybe...

A what-if story speculating that the U.S. might not have gotten the real Abu Zubaydah.

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,080 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-23-03 - Published: 6-8-02

28. God's Warrior

A fantasy about the fate of a suicide pilot...or bomber, or arsonist who causes an explosion. Read into it what you will. (Written at the beginning of January 2002.)

General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,450 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-23-03 - Published: 6-7-02

29. What Thou Sayeth reviews

Written in anger at the media's fawning, uncritical acceptance of a story I find highly suspicious. I don't pretend to know the truth. It's the one-sided reporting, the assumptions of guilt and innocence, that anger me.

General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 253 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-14-03 - Published: 3-14-03

30. Just One of Those Things

Have you ever had a lost object turn up in an unlikely place? Or in a place it hadn't been when you looked there before? Welcome to the world of jottles.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 791 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-4-03 - Published: 3-4-03

31. A Twist on a Twist

An essay inspired by Steven Saylor's novel "A Twist at the End," which deals with real, unsolved serial murders in Texas in the 1880s. Warning: Contains major spoilers for the novel!

Essay - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,140 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-26-03 - Published: 2-26-03

32. A Different View of Bin Laden

A synopsis of highlights of Yossef Bodansky's book "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America."

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,037 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-26-03 - Published: 2-26-03

33. A Promise Unkept reviews

A poem from the heart.

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-20-03 - Published: 2-20-03

34. Liberated and Loving It

A letter I sent Dear Abby in defense of retirement, after she'd called it a "dirty word"!

Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 482 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-19-03 - Published: 2-19-03

35. PostStroke Rehabilitation: Don't Make My Mistakes

Deals with care of an aging parent. I wrote this for a writing course several years ago; unfortunately, it's all true.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,086 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-19-03 - Published: 2-19-03

36. Born Again? reviews

An essay on reincarnation, focusing on suggestively similar past-life readings I've received from different psychics.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,674 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-18-03 - Published: 2-18-03

37. Legacy of 911 reviews

A letter my newspaper wouldn't print.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 389 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 2-18-03 - Published: 2-18-03

38. An Appeal to our Senators reviews

An August 2002 statement opposing an invasion of Iraq.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 465 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-18-03 - Published: 2-18-03

39. Irish Myth Haikus reviews

A set of five haikus portraying larger-than-life characters who participated in a mythic Irish war.

Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-7-02 - Published: 9-7-02

40. Same Time, Last Year reviews

An adult child recalls the final illness and death of an elderly parent.

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 896 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-9-02 - Published: 6-9-02

41. How to Bend the Long Arm of the Law

I was once asked to write a "how-to" as part of a test of writing ability. Unfortunately, I couldn't think of anything useful I knew how to do! So I decided to have some fun with it, and came up with this.

Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 182 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-8-02 - Published: 6-8-02

42. Through a Glass, Darkly reviews

When I wrote this short poem years back, it was actually supposed to mean something. And I now have no idea what! Still like the sound of it, though...

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 46 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-8-02 - Published: 6-8-02

43. Martian Chronicle

Another very short poem, little more than a fragment, but it does contain an offbeat idea.

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-8-02 - Published: 6-8-02

44. Reflections of Reality

Another very short poem, self-explanatory.

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 25 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-8-02 - Published: 6-8-02

45. The Mind of God

A very short poem, self-explanatory.

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-8-02 - Published: 6-8-02

46. Depth

To get the point of this, keep in mind the similarity of the title to the word "death."

General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-8-02 - Published: 6-8-02

47. Locked Away

A short-short about a commander's angst over a setback for which he blames himself. Fiction, but suggested by very real oddities in a news report. (Written in June 2002.)

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 626 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-8-02 - Published: 6-8-02

48. The Baby reviews

A fantasy about a dating couple and a very unusual picnic.

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,094 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-7-02 - Published: 6-7-02