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Stories by Arnie Reisman

Arnie Reisman

In Praise of the Paltry Parsnip

February 11, 2021
Arnie Reisman

Before there was sugar, there were parsnips. Yes, before they raised cane, they harvested a root vegetable and used it to sweeten meals, as if it were a spice or an herb. As a matter of fact, it is...

Six More Weeks of Heresy

January 28, 2021
Arnie Reisman

Groundhog Day, a day without reason When the large rodent as American pagan icon (also known as woodchuck or whistlepig) Freaks at his shadow, stirring six more weeks of winter Or stares at a...

Life on Hold

December 21, 2020
Arnie Reisman

The other day while I was on hold listening on speaker-phone to both sides of a Fifth Dimension album while trying to set up a new healthcare policy, my thoughts flitted back to Florence Krine. ...

The Lost Art of Clown Painting

November 25, 2020
Arnie Reisman

Thanks to technology, there are many more avenues for communication today. But beware. Around any virtual corner may lurk intrigue or humiliation. Sometimes you can bump into a ghost from your past...

A Thanksgiving-time Moment

November 19, 2020
Arnie Reisman

Outside a turkey pecks at my lawn Inside I peck at my keyboard He looks up startled I look up startled Must have been nothing Must have been nothing He stares again at the green I stare again...

An Abecedarian to Fall

October 8, 2020
Arnie Reisman

Autumn’s back      courting dreams emerged from gentle hesitation      It jostles kingdoms levitates monarchs      navigates old palsied...

Another Little Piece of My Heart

August 27, 2020
Arnie Reisman

Fifty years ago this summer I saw a musical milestone. On August 12, 1970, Janis Joplin gave her farewell concert at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge. The saddest aspect of this is that no one there,...

Longing for Live Theatre

August 10, 2020
Arnie Reisman

My passion for live theatre is now on hold. The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, where I serve as board chair, remains dark in these dark times. I am fated to be soothed by virtual versions of...

Traveling Through the Thickets of Memory

July 16, 2020
Arnie Reisman

In a normal time, when summer arrives vacation plans roll in. But since this is not a normal time our plan this summer is to go nowhere. While I’m doing that, at least I can take a drive down...

The Time Is Always Now To Stand Up for Racial Equality

July 2, 2020
Arnie Reisman

I am a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I first joined after the summer of 1964. Or I should say because of the summer of 1964. I was 22. In September I would start a jam-...

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