Egon Zaberfeld and his neighbors

Egon Zaberfeld and his neighbors1    I am a bare bones writer meaning….I’m more interested in using a story as a vehicle for thinking about how minds work than describing what a character was wearing as he sat down to eat a bowl of oatmeal. This is a story about how...

Tragedy

Tragedy In the midst of the horrors of war our attention can be captured by trivia and absurdities. (Leopold Barth) The farmer Kyrylo Mintz’s son has been lost in battle. He  is not coming home. He stands in the middle of his garden just outside the town of Bila...

The Noah Saga: Characters on the Ark

Characters on Noah’s Ark   The Noah Saga is inspired by the story of Noah’s Ark as described in the bible which includes events leading up to the building of the Ark, the great flood, the rescue of pairs of all of the earth’s animals, life on...

Conversations with a horse

Conversations with a horse My name is Egon and I have always been a bit spacy spending more time in my mind than in the real world. Play, storytelling, and other mind games, help me escape from a world that I have learned is  dangerous. I know that is true and so does...

Children learn to tip toe around their world

Children learn to tip toe around their world Children learn to tip toe around their world Kids may know less than adults but their minds make use of what they know often as well as adults. Just watch kids cautiously move about a dangerous world and you will see what I...

Clutches

Clutches  A half dozen kids—all first graders—regularly gathered to play in a small green triangular patch in our Mt. Washington neighborhood. In just a few days, we will start the new school year at Mt. Washington Elementary, about a quarter mile away. We planned to...