I guess I never thought about what life was like for people in their fifties. That age group was always sort of unseen and insignificant. But now I’m there I see us reckoning with some heavy things. One: your body starts to fall apart. Bad habits catch up. Teeth fall…

For a minute this summer, I was excited that things were going to return to normal. I had the vaccine, the masks were off, the sun was shining and it was time to play. But then the skies turned to smoke. …

When I first read the call for it I was confused. What does Poetic Distraction even mean? Surely now is not the time to turn away from the events taking place in our nation, as painful as they may be. Surely now is not the time to turn away from…

Last I checked the blue-lit scroll, we were still in a very bad place. The epidemic is spreading and apparently our fellow citizens are easily misled, to put it charitably. Deliberately ignorant, greedy, and selfish if we leave charity out of the equation, and why not, for they do. The…

I remember being shocked to learn that racism was alive and thriving in our country, it’s toxic tendrils spreading everywhere. I’d been raised in a city of white America without much exposure to racial diversity. My mom taught me that black people just had a different color of skin and…