Catching Fire Anthology
“Catching Fire” Anthology Launch January 31 at Beyond Baroque and on YouTube at 3:00 pm. Doors Open: 2:30 PM Readings: 3:00 PM. Poets and writers explore the devastation of the cataclysmic 2025 fires in Los Angeles, California, penetrating the unfathomable despair of losing everything, exposing the struggle with the ensuing grief, and, through […]
Happy New Year Donald!
Happy Holidays 2026
Behold At first sight, Dr. Trumpenstein shrinks away from the MAGA monster that he had created in his own image. Like so many demigods before him, however, the doctor could not control his offspring and, like Kronos, he’s afraid he will be castrated. Thus the good doctor hastens to open the door into summer in […]
Harley’s Trader Joe’s Thai Noodle Rice Soup
My mother came from that long line of Jewish cooks who were never satisfied with a printed recipe; she was always potchkeing around with the ingredients, be it from a Jewish cookbook or an LA Times Food Section recipe. She’d add a little bit here, a little bit there. This was also true for […]
My Journey With Our Complicated, Dysfunctional Health Care System
I’ve been fighting bladder tumors on and off for seven years now and, until recently, had beaten them back. In September, 2025, my urologist found a polyp in my bladder and scheduled a TURBT, which is a same-day in-and-out Bladder Tumor Removal Surgery. In November I had his procedure and this time, however, the tumor […]
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