Chapter 7 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis.” 2021 May 7, 2020: Sometimes on a quite evening over Cuban contraband and homemade bourbon, I wonder how radicals like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky were able to overthrow the Russian monarchy and …
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Chapter 5 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis.” In computer modeling, one never gets the correct answer, however, we expect experts to at least be close in a crisis with so much at stake. For trusted experts to be off by …
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Chapter 4 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis.” 2021 At the beginning of April 2020, the federal government predicts that in fourteen days the COVID crisis reaches its apex with respect to rate of expansion and begins to decline. According to …
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Chapter 3 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis.” 2021 It’s late March of 2020 and based on dire predictions from the United Kingdom’s Imperial College of London (UK) and University of Washington (UW) COVID models, the government is announcing an effort …
Read MoreHe’s Already Made Up Her Mind
R.M. Dolin, March 15, 2025, read other poems We’ve been here beforeand now is not a time for laughterWind warns knowing he won’t listen.The path is clearwhen often traveledbut dangerously easy tooverlook signs to guide your way.He chooses to believe,as he always does,the heart finds …
Read MoreAmerican Haikus
A few years back, I fell in with a cohort of poets who challenged each other to write Haikus on our topic of the day. While others found this highly restrictive form of poetry helped open and expand their creativity, for me the required discipline …
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Chapter 2 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis,” 2021 COVID is the first viral crisis of the digital age, with unprecedented access to data that should, in theory, result in high quality information driving good policy and decision making. COVID burst …
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A collection of short stories by R.M. Dolin from 2024 It’s said novelist are people who can’t write short stories and short story writers are people who can’t write poems. Hemingway invented the six word short story genre and quite possibly created the perfect entry …
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Chapter 1 from the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis,” 2021 When the history of the COVID crisis is eventually told, long after we’ve learned to filter through media sensationalism, political distortions, medical malpractice, and our emotional investment in hysteria, the crisis won’t …
Read MoreEvery Streetlamp Reveals a Story
Poem from Chapter 11 of the R.M. Dolin novel, “The Dangling Conversation, Read chapter, Other chapter poem In the mist of my moment, rain doesn’t matter anymore than forgotten footsteps disappearing down uneven cobblestones once guiding me home. You still come to me in whispers, …
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