I’m getting into blogging. Now I view almost everything I encounter as a potential blog that can be developed if I choose to do so. It takes an effort to focus on what to say, to play with ideas, to take a side trip in creativity. But if I don’t seize the opportunity, it slips away. [...]
Sailor Circus – Sarasota, Florida A few years ago I wrote an essay – Cracks – my first blog, which considers time the interval between experiences left dangling to squeeze in more experiences: time as space, a medium for things to happen, stillness as well as movement, nothing as well as something. I was [...]
At first these essays comprised various topics of interest to me – for example, the nature of collecting and the power of “cracks” of time. Science has morphed into history for me after some fifty years of research. I have closed my laboratory at NIH and stepped aside to become what is, kindly, [...]
Oops, sorry. My grocery cart – the push-along container for food that old guys use as a walker – was blocking the way. They should have traffic rules and lanes in here! Can’t you move? says the white-haired lady, sixtyish, rushing. She gives me the evil eye. I smile. Sure, sorry. Wham, I hit a [...]
Editor’s Note: We've all read stories that keep us enthralled the whole way through. For me, "Empty Pages" is one of them. Since readers interpret stories in their own ways, I asked Joram: What inspired this story of crime and love, and what message do you hope to relay with your fictional works? I had [...]
The gift of art, like that of silence, has the capacity to touch hidden yearnings for love and beauty and sadness and adventure, as well as the suppressed torments of anger and rage, bringing humanity in all its complexity to the surface.
