Arizona governor Janet Napolitano is on the front lines of the battle over immigration. Her tough stand has the rest of the country paying attention – and wo...
My favorite articles have been profiles of fascinating figures -- civil rights legend Bob Moses, poet and activist Grace Paley, novelist and wild woman Dorothy Allison-- but I also enjoy in-depth research into current scientific, political and ethical controversies. My other pleasure: writing personal commentaries for Vermont Public Radio.
You can find a few of my articles here -- or at least the ones new enough to have survived the digital divide. Warning: This website is a work in progress. I'll try to add a few articles every week, but it will be a while before it's even marginally complete!
Dorothy Allison WRITES EVERYTHING down: dialogue she overhears on buses, the stories of her dead aunts, fragments from old June Carter songs. She takes notes...
Before making her international hit, Europa, Europa, and the new, acclaimed Olivier, Olivier, Polish director Agnieszka Holland survived many personal trauma...
Deep inside the Mississippi Delta, where he once dodged Klan bullets and sharecropper adulation, Bob Moses has quietly returned to finish the task he started...
Wynona Ward keeps her eyes on the rutted dirt road as she drives through the undulating mountain valleys of central Vermont and into her past. She rounds a b...
WHEN THE APPEALS ARE EXHAUSTED AND THE JAILHOUSE KEY ABOUT TO BE THROWN AWAY, KATIE MONROE IS THE WOMAN TO CALL. FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES, SHE HAS FOUGHT TO ...
