Our spring semester OLLI music workshop is now running on Zoom on Wednesdays at 12:00, for registered members only. Our next meeting will be on April 21. More details and a playlist are on the ‘Music’ page. For registration and details see OLLI WEBSITE

Topics of the Week

The Featured Essay: Dangerous Planet lists a few extra things we have to worry about on Earth Day this year.

Writing Life: The Chronicles of Wasted Time asks: why write a memoir?

Rediscoveries has a new(ish) entry – a remarkably perceptive book from 1991 called The True and Only Heaven by Christopher Lasch. Three other recent entries are – Robert H. Thouless, a voice of sanity from half a century ago, Neil Postman – a highly original American social critic, and Eric Hoffer a critic of an earlier age who helps to explain the political catastrophe we may be facing in 2021.

Weekly Radio Essays can be heard every Monday, usually shortly after 7:40 a.m. on 91.1 WSHU and 89.9 WSUF as well as other stations in the region.

Podcasts:

All my broadcasts are now available as podcasts on iTunes and Google. Just enter my name in the Search box.