Essays

Read Robert’s essays about small-town life, written for The Metuchen Times.

Latest Essay: THE SUN THAT IS YOUNG ONCE ONLY
Round the Park Twice
Magpies, Movies, and Taylor Swift
Exit 135
Ghosts
NO HEAT
Small Criminals at Large
An Absence of Sinatra
Me and Mrs. Jones
SANTA, SLAIN
Alice in Autumn
Back to Shul
One Toke Over the Line
The Promise of Post Office Boxes
Declaration of Principles
What Survives
What to Watch This Month
The Summing Up
God Only Knows
Found Poetry
In the Wee Small Hours
Neighbors: Lost and Found
Murders and Anniversaries
The Eleventh Hour
The Beauty of the Bone
Tomato of Gratitude
Killers and Landmarks
The Trip to Truro
Masque of the Home-Schooled Handyman
Hotel on Baltic
Something Even Non-Believers Can Believe In
The Krupnick Countdown
An Anthropologist in Metuchen
The People’s Choice
The Joy of Juggling
Stalking the Ineffable
Season of the Ghost
Moving the Mezuzah
The Writing on the Wall
We’re Not in Kansas Anymore
Snow Angels
Cabin Fever
Graveyard Meeting

Stranger in the Manger
Family, Fate, and The Fugitive
Trouble in Wonderland
Panic on Patterson Street
A Sort of Parental Pride
Ingmar Bergman Gets a Parking Ticket
Young Man, There’s a Place You Can Go!
Fish Oil of the Dead
Pause You Who Read This
Lost in the Story
On the Difficulty of Throwing Away Old Love Letters
I’ve Got Five Dollars
Dogs of December
Life During Wartime
Lunch with a Trump Supporter
Postmen and Piston Rods
Rescuing
The Grackle
Walking Life