“Daddy Hates Russians”

Speaking into the crackling microphone on the small plane’s radio, the Russian heavyweight wrestler spoke guttural Russian as we flew low and over the stacks of Three Mile Island. “That ought to get somebody’s attention,” I said. The wrestler’s laugh sounded coarse as Cossacks dancing on broken vodka bottles. Ivan and his comrades had rolled […]

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Charm This!

Look at this face. Do my many charms immediately come to mind? I don’t think so. In addition to nurturing an irascible personal identity, my writing is equally contentious, defiant and troublesome. Lame critics over the years have attacked me and my work with many epithets. I’ve been called hostile, arrogant, combative, rude, belligerent and […]

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