“Have I mentioned before that The Cartoonist Known as Addison and I have never actually met in person? I think our reluctance stems from the fact that, after all these years of working…

“I nag Mark Addison Kershaw. Every month. I nag all of Hubris’s Contributors, but I single Mark out for special attention. Because he makes me smile, always, and, many times, he makes me…

“Without spilling the personal details of a dear friend’s recent health crisis, I’ll just say that serving as health care proxy is not a walk in the park. For several months, my mind…

“My story starts on a small island in Greece, my ‘patrida’ (homeland) and, if truth be told, the fact that I have now lived in the US almost as long as I lived…

“As the Fates would have it, I had also contracted mononucleosis the summer after graduation, so when I went to sleep-away college in September, I was unable to participate in the initial months of…

“Shortly after my first book was published, I received a small royalty check and promptly squandered it on some books that were available at the local libraries. Said my frugal wife, ‘Skip, if…

“As a little boy in Los Angeles in the 1960s, the music I listened to was The Doors, The Monkees, and Shirley Temple. The Doors made sense because they were from LA, so…

“The other night, lying in bed at the Hotel Herodion, I saw Andrea get up and pull the curtains. I have seen this before. She is a light sleeper and, when she wakes…

“To my mind, Bateman’s writing, which defies categorization (see Nin Andrews’ and Kathryn Nuernberger’s blurbs), is as close to non-fiction as poetry gets if, by non-fiction, you mean quantum mechanics. But hers is…

“Ongoing, abrupt climate change is rooted in human behavior underlain by natural selection. Ongoing, irreversible climate change is rooted in human behavior underlain by natural selection. These young people have no more control over abrupt, irreversible climate…