The short essays, and essays may not be the proper word for these pieces, at first frustrated me. I like the humor. But the pieces just seemd to get into the subject matter...then end. I am unaware of the space restraints he had to work with but many left me wanting more. Several were many pages ...
One can gather from the poems collected here that the 2012 campaign was far more about the Republicans than the Democrats. With the Democratic nominee not in doubt, I guess that makes sense. But that also puts everything that the administration does subject to scrutiny as a campaign issue, and th...
In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you didn’t go to every performance of your child’s school play, “the county would come and take the child.” ...
That would be prejudice, and you girls have been brought up to abhor prejudice. Daddy has never met a cat that he liked.” Loaded for Raccoons When the raccoons started getting at the garbage cans this summer, I naturally consulted the man in our town we call the Old Timer. He’s the one who told m...
The Dream Act hadn’t passed, despite orations. So he came close by changing regulations To say a person (often a Latino) Brought here illegally as a bambino, Could go about his business and not fret (As long as some conditions had been met) About the chance that he could soon be thrown From here ...