What’s the T.S. Elliot line? April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Yeah. Three years ago today, my dad, after an epic and days-long struggle with chemo-related pneumonia, breathed his last breath. In true Joel Dobbin fashion, it was as much [...]

  There are a million things to say about the Trayvon Martin killing. There are political and racial angles, there’s gun issues, there’s notions about how all of these things intersect with gated communities and homeowner associations (HOAs). There’s the reactionary politics and the need for “side-taking” in increasingly polarizing times when everything ultimately breaks [...]