Parting Glances: Detroit's Black History Month Celeb
When Detroit-born, Cass Tech graduate Bernard Johnson died, age 60 in 1997, the New York Times carried a quarter-page obit celebrating his life as "a [...]
Parting Glances: 1933 Hate Who? This is 2017
Within months of Adolf Hitler's appointment as Germany's Chancellor in 1933, Nazi S.S. thugs in Berlin stood menacingly in front of Jewish owned [...]
Parting Glances: Let's Show Our Woodies
Woody Allen — who takes religion, God, get-saved theology with a grain of salt (Epsom, no doubt) quips, "I don't believe in an afterlife, although I am [...]
Parting Glances If Ever a Wiz that Wasn't!
Contrary to rumors circulating for years in Story Bookland Weekly Tabloid there never was any real friction between Dorothy, Cowardly Lion, Tin Woodsman, [...]
Parting Glances: Bambi, Roosevelt, JFK, Trump
I recall a New Yorker cartoon that appeared years ago. Picture, if you will: two or three animals are gathered in a sunlit forest. A cute rabbit looks up to a [...]
Parting Glances: A Rose by Any Other Name
There's a joke about the gay guy who goes for his annual medical checkup. He coughs three times and bends over for the proverbial Pokemon. The proc-doc finds [...]
Parting Glances: Christmas Un-corked!
I hate to play the Gay Grinch Who Stole Christmas, but there's a movement afoot by the Southern Comfort Baptists to do away with all suspected gay references [...]
Parting Glances: Turn again, Time in your flight!
I turned 80 in May of this year. I have lived 62 of those years as a member of Detroit's rainbow community. I suspect I shall do so for the remainder of life. [...]
PARTING GLANCES: The Age of Treason? Perhaps
If one person can be truly said to have single-handedly pushed this country into a War of Independence from England, it was patriot and pamphleteer Thomas [...]
Parting Glances: Inaugural Sermon on the Mountebank
NOTE: The following well-known Sermon on the Mount — politically updated — is taken from the Theocratic New World Translation of the New Testament. It is [...]
Parting Glances, Tamara A. Rees: Transgender Bronze Star Hero
Tamara A. Rees is 92. She leads a reasonably quiet, uneventful, grandmotherly life with her adopted children's children in Los Angeles, California. In 1954, [...]
Parting Glances: Now that the Election's Finally Over
For my first go-around at passing for 39, I spent a lot of time in Chicago fancying I was a new face. Especially if the bar lighting was Gloria Swanson dim, [...]
