The Re-Con
Accounting for Pagans
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Taking the stairways of words and numbers to find those that count and retain meaning through time
The Re-Con
Ich bin: being German in post-WWII America
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Swastikas that Jimmy Clarken and other kids drew on their notebook covers no longer seemed like innocent doodles or attempts at teenage rebellion
The Re-Con
The Water Way: out of its banks in summer, the Susquehanna rises
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In winter, ice floes and the clear sense I’ve put myself in the way of the world
The Re-Con
What Would It Take?
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“It’s the question I’ve recently asked myself, one that most of us ignore because we can’t imagine that it actually concerns us.”
The Re-Con
A year in the gutter: that thin straight canyon where one page meets the next
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Knowing is better than not knowing, so I read
The Re-Con
How to prepare for a testy election
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Manifestations of voter suppression are red hued and many
The Re-Con
Departures: a family history memorialized on the four faces of a cemetery stone
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It tilts north, a departure from all the other upright German stones around it.
The Re-Con
The etymology of home
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“Dozens of fireflies glittered like streetlights twinkling in a distant city whose name I didn’t yet know…”
The Re-Con
The Country Corporeal
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“…we stood on the edge of a field where, on a September morning in 1862, the blood of 12,000 men — wounded and dead — soaked the soil. “
The Re-Con
The Demonstration: heart thumping, ears ringing — the pistol’s report took us to a hilltop in Vietnam
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45 years later the gunshot called up the echo of Kent State, My Lai, Tet, Walter Cronkite, Saigon, Berkeley, Bobby Kennedy, Woodstock, Nixon, Weathermen, Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr.