by Matthew Friedman | Dec 2, 2022 | Commentary, First Person
Short, fragmented lines, like shards of broken glass in the sun, skipping from one facet to the next, thoughts interrupted and reconstituted on-the-fly, sometimes wandering, sometimes rushing forward – this was the Bob Hogg I met through the medium of poetry. The...
by Matthew Friedman | Aug 29, 2022 | Commentary, First Person
Artemis 1 sits waiting on the pad at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B, shackled to earth by a persistent issue with the hydrogen cooling system. The great rust-colored booster will now head to space no sooner than next Friday, so it sits, swathed in a veil of...
by Matthew Friedman | Apr 4, 2021 | Commentary, First Person
Easter falls on the last day of Pesach this year, and the symmetry seems so perfect in my bicultural home. My Irish-American spouse has arranged an impressive Easter basket full of goodies that evoke the Catholic syncretism that brought bunnies and eggs into...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 26, 2020 | Commentary, First Person
My father and I arrived at Sam the Record Man in downtown Montreal around 10:30 am, after a late breakfast at Murray’s in Westmount. The Boxing Day crowds that lined up along Rue Ste-Catherine and around the block for hours in the December Chill to get first crack at...
by Matthew Friedman | Mar 8, 2020 | Commentary, First Person, Politics
Elizabeth Warren has faced entrenched sexism at every turn in her personal, professional, and political life. It is what turned her once-promising presidential campaign into an uphill slog against the misogyny deeply rooted in the soil of American culture. It is the...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 10, 2019 | Commentary, First Person
We woke on the morning of Yom Kippur to the news from Halle. I felt queasy, but not surprised. My first thought was “of course: another holy day, another attack.” This has happened before; it has happened too many times before. In the last year alone, fourteen people...
