Heed The Attica Prison Precedent. Save The Rikers Island Inmates (Update)
By Michael McQuillan
A padlocked public park at City Hall permits pigeons to petition the Mayor who cast himself as underdogs' defender.Continue reading
Michael’s World: The Value Of Writers Groups From Harlem To Harare
By Michael McQuillan
Ideas flood the mind like a jukebox showcasing songs. Continue reading
McQuillan’s World: What A French Queen Could Teach Us
By Michael McQuillanContinue reading
Mike’s World: Snow Day
By Mike McQuillan
Walking I feel one with the wind. Worldly concerns dissolve as snow showers surround me. Continue reading
Mike’s World: Greenwood Speaks From Harlem To Hollywood
By Michael McQuillan
“Life is a spark between two identical voids,” psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom writes in Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death, “the darkness before birth and the identical one after death.”Continue reading
McQuillan’s World: After The Coup At The Capitol
By Michael McQuillan
I've been scribbling thoughts and feelings on store receipts, napkins or envelopes.Continue reading
McQuillan’s World: An Admirable Man
By Michael McQuillan
An unmarked door bares a vacant bar where I want news, not booze. Continue reading
Mike’s World: Marching To Oblivion From Harlem To Hollywood?
By Mike McQuillan
A sunlit diamond blinds me on a perfect baseball day.Continue reading
Op-Ed: Preserving Democracy Demands More Than Putting Biden In Office
By Michael McQuillan
Never during my youthful McGovern campaigning or as I lobbied in Washington against Nixon's Vietnam escalation did I dream that our nation’s concurrent crises would surround my adulthood.Continue reading
“Blue Was Once My Favorite Color” By Mike McQuillan
By Michael McQuillan
Stars and stripes blue field so cool nation great they sayContinue reading
Op-Ed: The Pandemic Has No Franklin Roosevelt
By Mike McQuillan
“What’s your sense of how long this will last, till I get a haircut and garden role,” a friend asked as our dogs played in rain.Continue reading
Michael’s World: A Terrible Beauty Surrounds Us
By Michael McQuillan
Tendrils reach the living room window. The tree, a friend, beckons. It was here sixteen years ago when Sharon and I bought this Brooklyn apartment.Continue reading
Op-Ed: Dan Rather, An Idealist At 87, Claims The “Fourth Estate” And Faith Will See Us Past Trump’s Transgressions. Is He Right?
By Michael McQuillan
“I wonder if you can tell us what goes through your mind when people who love this country and believe in you say, regretfully, that you should resign or be impeached?” Continue reading
Op-Ed: Have Police-Community Relations Improved From Harlem To Hollis?
By Michael McQuillan
Police officers were friends when and where I grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the Sixties. Continue reading
How Is Change Achieved When Protest Ends? A Unique School Sends Teens Citywide Seeking Answers
By Michael McQuillan and Michael Kosciol
The March for Our Lives had a nationwide impact on our thoughts and actions on gun safety issues as hundreds of thousands rallied in New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Denver, Miami and even snow-covered Cincinnati, but how many are now active?Continue reading
