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The Romance of Late Nights

(Originally published in FMR’s Opus Magazine, September 2024). A pilot’s business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks…

Steinbeck and the Delicacy of Coordination.

(Originally published in FMR’s Opus Magazine, August 2024). The American author John Steinbeck was 65 in 1967, when at the behest of Newsday magazine, he went to Vietnam to report on the war. (Steinbeck had received the Nobel prize for Literature in 1962). Alicia Patterson’s friend since 1956, he wrote a series of articles in the form of “Letters…

The Art of the Understatement.

(Originally published in FMR’s Opus Magazine, June 2024). By the time you receive this edition of Opus, the cacophony of mudslinging and empty promises we experienced during the May elections should be fading out. All the noise and hot air we had to endure, set me thinking about the value of FMR to our communal…