Category: Tompkins Blog

Going South to Heal

My ever disorder Cystic Fibrosis, of typical ΔF508 form, hasn’t ever been a subject of conversation for the scribe in me, for a number of

Like a Winter Sun

Why recall arguably discordant contingencies? Why choose to remember the so-called bad stuff? Why not stick to heroism? Because I’m writing for adults. War isn’t

Attendance Expressed, Tales to Tell

Director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Bernau-based Bauhaus School was pressured to close in 1933—un-German thought some homely Nazis—after it had already existed in Weimar

Happy Miles Davis Day

A Twitter personality who I hadn’t known before today reminded me of the late Miles Davis’ birthday…on May 26th. That’s a big deal for me. Thank

Therapy, Part 1

Don’t let me say Dad was a drunk Primarily he was a bright man Math, science and history He’d have learned engineering as a kid