by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 20, 2022 | Story
Most of these stories are part of a now-136-story collection. The inspiration was from an exercise suggested by my teacher, Mrs. Staveley in the 1980s: “Ask yourself where you were at the Crucifixion.” She thought most of us had been in the crowd,...
by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 20, 2022 | Story
Returned from Tenant’s Harbor and waiting idly one evening on the platform of the Sixty-sixth Street El station in New York, not in any hurry to get his train home, Toomer suddenly had a feeling of inner movement, as if some other power had taken over within him....
by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 20, 2022 | Essay
For years I had wondered how young people in general, especially those born after 1985, would take over adult functions when they grew into adults. In my mind, I couldn’t get the children to fit the adult responsibilities. My father told a story of a man working in a...
by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 20, 2022 | Story
Laurens Van der Post was a prisoner of the Japanese in WWII. One day he had a remarkable experience: All the Dutch and English senior officers were suddenly summoned to parade one afternoon in the prison quadrangle. The summons, though extremely quick and...
by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 18, 2022 | Story
This is a compact, but essential history of my parents: My mother was born in Holland in 1904 My father was born in Germany in 1906 Both were born into Jewish families, but that’s another story. My father’s sister Hilda, worked for my mother’s...
