Vicki Ryder

Vicki Ryder is a retired teacher who served as a conflict management specialist for the NY Governor’s Office on Employee Relations and co-chaired the Training Committee of the International Academy of Family Mediators.

For the People

By Vicki Ryder

Vicki Ryder: Have you heard the awful news? Our Democracy’s bein’ abused. Our Reps have passed Bill HR 1 But all their work is bein’ undone. This bill to keep our voting fair Isn’t going anywhere…

You’re Fired!

By Vicki Ryder

Vicki Ryder: I open my morning newspaper To see what the President’s done, And the horrors just keep piling higher And I feel like I’m coming undone.

Gripping Crime Thriller ‘Left of Eden’ Set in Hollywood’s Blacklist Era

Eric A. Gordon: Broe calls Left of Eden “A Harry Palmer Mystery,” after the LAPD-turned-private investigator who is the protagonist of the tale, implying that he has further adventures of the smart, risk-taking P.I. up his sleeve. I hope so!

“Bloomberg by Bloomberg”—A Book Review

James A. Kyprios: In plain English, he built a better mouse trap and as Emerson said, they all beat a path to his door to get it. It really is that simple.

Genre-Bending Brazilian Film ‘Bacurau’ Highlights Struggle between North and South

Eric A. Gordon: Bacurau is part sci-fi, part horror, part Wild West, part hallucinatory “magical realism”, and part historical anthropological mockumentary about Brazil’s Northeast interior, a vast semi-arid land called the sertão.

The Day of the Hunters: Must We Burn Blumhouse?

Ed Rampell: The Hunt’s premise is that liberal elitists kidnap, track down and kill (often rather horrifically) “deplorables” – people they presume to be voters for Trump, who the snobby upper crust predators call “our ratfucker-in-chief.”