by Bob Newell | Mar 28, 2014 | Opinion
Pity the elusive mouse who must struggle to disconnect himself in the minds of youthful humans from the ubiquitous, plasticized keyboard kind. Does anyone any longer recognize the fundamental literary distinction between Walt’s beloved “Mickey” and...
by Bob Newell | Feb 24, 2014 | Opinion
At the beginning of the 21st century, I lived in Houston and tended to observe immigrant struggles from the relatively safe and somewhat distant perspective of a privileged American. The fighting in Kosova (the Albanian spelling), where Serbian soldiers attempted to...
by Bob Newell | Nov 6, 2013 | Opinion
It was a powerful, nonverbal symbol recognized by every player on the old New York Yankees baseball club during their successful 1956 season. When manager Casey Stengel wanted to signal the identity of the person he had chosen to pitch for the next game, he would get...
by Bob Newell | Oct 22, 2013 | Opinion
The soft rain slowly fell just beyond the edge of the balcony. Because of its larger size, this blessed appendage – which hangs out over the street, four stories below – is referred to by the Greeks as a veranda. How cool was my elevated seat at noon on this October...
by Bob Newell | Oct 9, 2013 | Opinion
One of the first phrases I learned in the study of the contemporary Greek language is lipame – Greek shorthand for “I am sorry!” As a stumbling practitioner of modern Greek, I learned this word rather quickly and easily because I constantly make mistakes....
