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Time Slips A Cognew
I’m beginning this piece by chipping away at a giant writer’s block.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
06-23-2015 |
Commentary
The Persistent Dreams of the Tunnel Buildersnew
Some of the people seated around the long table in the elegant dark wooded South Pasadena home have been fighting the idea of a five-mile long tunnel nearly 200 feet beneath their feet for decades.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
03-30-2015 |
Commentary
My Kindle, My Birds & Menew
Lionel Rolfe is the author of a number of books available at Amazon in paperback and ebook form. His titles include a novel, “The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohn: A Mostly True Memoir of California Journalism,” and his nonfiction, including “Literary LA,” “The Fat Man on the Left,” “The Uncommon Friendship of Yaltah Menuhin and Willa Cather” and “The Menuhins: A Family Odyssey.”
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
03-11-2015 |
Commentary
Gaza from the Perspective of a Proud Diaspora Jewnew
I have been doing my best not to think too much about Gaza, not only publicly but for myself.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
08-14-2014 |
Commentary
How Meeting Susan Anspach Completed The Circlenew
Goodnight moon.
Goodnight room.
Goodnight Lionel in the room.
—Susan Anspach
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
07-06-2014 |
Commentary
A Scary Apparition From the Desertnew
The other night on MSNBC, Rachael Maddow talked about Col. William P. Gale, the man who created the Posse Comitatus, Christian Identity and Aryan Nation movements.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
05-27-2014 |
Commentary
Getting Older, Not Always Gracefullynew
Getting older was supposed to be easier than this–more like a wonderful long vacation. But of course, it hasn’t been that way. My wife left me just before I turned 70 and I’m still not getting along with it too well a couple of years later. I don’t have enough on Social Security to survive, so I’m still working part time at my old high-stress journalism job. And becoming something of a lonely and grumpy old man in the process.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
05-27-2014 |
Commentary
Night Train To Shanghainew
Night Train to Shanghai And Other Memories Of China.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
05-27-2014 |
Commentary
Talking Unionnew
There’s a curious thing about talking union. It’s not cool. Unions ain’t cool. They’re so not cool you’ll notice almost nobody writes about them. They ain’t trendy. But they’re the coming thing.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
05-27-2014 |
Commentary
Tags: Labor unions
A Scary Apparition From the Desertnew
The other night on MSNBC, Rachael Maddow talked about Col. William P. Gale, the man who created the Posse Comitatus, Christian Identity and Aryan Nation movements.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
05-06-2014 |
Commentary
Getting Older, Not Always Gracefullynew
Getting older was supposed to be easier than this--more like a wonderful long vacation. But of course, it hasn't been that way. My wife left me just before I turned 70 and I’m still not getting along with it too well a couple of years later. I don’t have enough on Social Security to survive, so I'm still working part time at my old high-stress journalism job. And becoming something of a lonely and grumpy old man in the process.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
03-24-2014 |
Commentary
The Future Governor From Newhall, Calif.new
The obituary notice of a four-term California assemblyman who died at 86 the other day brought back memories of an odd and jarring time in my youth when he hired me to write a philosophy because he was then an aspiring politician.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
03-06-2014 |
Commentary
Tags: Jim Keysor
Talking Unionnew
There's a curious thing about talking union. It's not cool. Unions ain't cool. They're so not cool you'll notice almost nobody writes about them. They ain't trendy. But they're the coming thing.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
02-19-2014 |
Commentary
Penelope Sudrownew
Lionel Rolfe meets actress Penelope Sudrow.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
12-27-2013 |
Commentary
Obama Will Go Down In History As One of Our Greatest Presidentsnew
In my mind, there's little doubt that Barack Obama will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents. He is presiding over a country almost as torn by divisions as it was in the civil war. Our greatest presidents come out of troubled times.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
09-30-2013 |
Commentary
