Dear David: I’m Sorry I Called You a Stupid Refugee

Ok, I didn’t really. But the thought crept up, unbidden, more than once. Occasionally it stood before me naked for a millisecond before political correctness, even in the recesses of my mind, forced me to clothe the ragged sentiment. When I learned his status (this is while we were still civil), David became the first…

Pied Piper & Other Tales that Ruined the Lives of Immigrant Children

“Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cooks’ own ladles”