Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behavior patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function. Konrad Lorenz One hot Friday afternoon a long time ago […]
Sometimes the dogs in this neighborhood start an alarm chain. Little CharlieDog is the fulcrum. The dogs back across the pond begin to bark, the dogs across the street bark, and Charlie runs from one side of the upper yard to the other, transferring the barks with his peculiar strident yelp. His muscles get taut […]
She was born Malka Opiekun in 1898 in New York and made her debut on stage when she was six. In the 1920’s she was the doyenne of the Yiddish Theater; her first English role didn’t come until she was in her early 40’s. You might recognize her…she was Yente the Matchmaker in Fiddler on the […]
When I write a poem I try to keep the words as simple and true as I can manage. The temptation to show-off with language is always there, and the temptation to force meaning will make me pause and doubt the words. I know that the music is in the plainsong of language and that […]
Some months later, after going on with the Census Bureau full-time, Adelaide will be sitting in a vast room in Manhattan with a hundred other women, working through the census sheets from other districts in New York City, calculating the sums of each page and placing the sheets in great binders that are organized by […]