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Other Essays Volume 1

This is another miscellany of pieces, sometimes written for publication, such as the American Atheist and The Christian Science Monitor, sometimes for the sheer pleasure of writing them.

Nibble at these as you will. May they nourish.

The Essays

Connections

The Ad Ventures Of A Copywriter

Anger

Bicycling

My Ankle

Bruises And Backfields In The Gathering Dark

Chainsaws

The Dancer And The Dance

Beach

Hubble On The Front Porch

John Pearson, Mentor

Jump, Pass, Shoot: Playing Hoop

The Midwife's Magic Towel

The Perversity Of Human Nature

A Quiet Of Breathing

Sliding And Other Physics

Solitude

Spirits In The Material World

Teaching Together: Evenings In Continuing Ed

Urban Garden

The Work Ethic, An Ethic Of Work

Family

An Incident One December Night

The Two-Step Father

Voices From The Street


Seasons

Autumn

Lovely, Dark and Deep

Santa At The Mall

Spring

Veterans Day

Winter

Culture

On Acting

Bathtub Madonnas

Domestic Resurrection: Bread and Puppet Theatre

In Praise of Pleasure

The Moving Wall

Smoking

White Man In Mattapan

Women Warriors

Gain-Saying English-Only

Op-Ed

The Bombing of the Constitution

Campaign Finance Deform

Circus Rings

Class Test At Boston Latin

The Color Of Fear

Co-ops Provide An Alternative

Giving Currency A Local Habitation


The Power Of Prayer

Put The Pentagon On A Diet

Reining In The Reign Of The Corporations

Revoking Corporate Charters

Right-Wing Summer Blockbusters

Seeking An Alliance For Change

Third Party

Uncivil Society

When Does Someone Get Old?

Why Conservatives Should Fear The Market

Consumption

July 4 (1986)

July 5

Thoughts On Labor And The Value Of Work

Good Fun

Crete

Eros On The Escaltor

The Good Look Nook

JFN

Old Lady On The Ten-Speed

Traveling To Arizona

Yugo