September 2019 – Ragbag Mind

Sweet Little Soul

Sep 3, 2019Toby TompkinsEssays

Sweet Little Soul It’s what Phoebe Snow called Paul Simon, when she sang with him on “Gone At Last,” and I’ve always thought there was something catlike about the graceful, subtle Simon. It’s what my wife Patsy and I called our cat Quetzal, during his brief, ardent life. He was beautiful and shy. He never

Dystalgia, Part Two

Sep 2, 2019Toby TompkinsEssays

Dystalgia Part Two I entered Yale, and I went on acting. In the early 1960s, the undergraduate Yale Dramatic Association and the School of Drama shared the University Theater, although pressure was building in the drama school to kick out the undergrads so that it could mount more plays each season. But that didn’t happen