An Amrikan Chimaera, Author at Jollybengali.net - An Amrikan Chimaera's Journey

Happy Birthday to the Rock of My Life

Happy birthday to my mother!! Well, yinz got a story about my father yesterday. Here’s one about the rock of our family, my mother:

I’ve been asking myself why I started going to BLM protests this time around. Mostly, #enoughisenough. But also, let me tell you a story

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about friendships and relationships and how we grow and nurture new entrants into our lives as we age.

Is it my blinders, my relative inexperience or does society often give short shrift to craftsmanship and training in the arts?

Most of the literature I consume is sci-fi/fantasy. (More sci-fi than fantasy but still). I usually go out of my way to watch sci-fi/fantasy

2001 – 9/11. Keep your head down. No one will notice you. It’s going to be okay. 2002/2003 – “Go home!” someone screams at

“I think Islam hates us. There’s something there that — there’s a tremendous hatred there. There’s a tremendous hatred. We have to get to

In light of the attack on Barcelona yesterday, I’m once again reminded of the problem of culture, or the lack of strong culture. If

I am tired of purity politics. I’m tired of American political parties demanding homogeneity from their members. I’m tired of being only Democrat or

I come not to praise resurgent neoconservative power but to bury Donald Trump’s lurching approach to foreign policy. For many of us who had