by Jeff Stookey | Dec 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
We hear a lot in this season about the “War on Christmas,” but today’s war is nothing like that of the 1600s. England Soon after the Puritan-controlled government executed King Charles I in 1649, they abolished Christmas observances in England. Puritans...
by Jeff Stookey | Nov 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
There is a well-known story involving an audience member asking a poet who just read one of her poems, “Is that a real poem or did you just make that up?” This fall at the end of the poetry seminar that I took with Andrea Hollander, the subject of feeling like...
by Jeff Stookey | Oct 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
In observance of LGBTQ+ history month, I want to talk about some of the books that were instrumental in helping me understand the gay world of the 1920s as portrayed in Medicine for the Blues. I encourage anyone interested in gay history to check out some of...
by Jeff Stookey | Sep 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-1990) has created an intriguing and challenging body of work that is as relevant today as it was when he was coming of age during the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Two specific aspects in Durrenmatt’s work epitomize...
by Jeff Stookey | Aug 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Changing attitudes When I participated in the Pathfinders intergenerational program at the Q Center, LGBTQ elders were paired with middle school Gay Straight Alliance kids. In discussion with an African-American teenage boy, who said his family was religious, I...
by Jeff Stookey | Jul 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
It is not unusual for young military men to form intense emotional relationships, perhaps at times sexual. Some combination of youth, fear, camaraderie, lack of contact with women, separation from familiar environs, male bonding, and young male hormones...
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