By Sondra Singer Happy New Year! But I know it’s not happy for everyone. I feel bad for most of the world. Covid 19 (and 20 and 21 and now 22) has upended life as we know it. We’re all damn tired of hearing and seeing and reading about it…

By Sondra Singer My husband and I just watched the British movie, Luther: The Fallen Sun, on Netflix. The stars were Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo as the police. We’d never seen the TV show on which this was apparently based. …

I live about half an hour from the biggest fire to occur in the urban corridor of Colorado, the Marshall Fire, which, on December 30, 2021 took out 1,000 structures, most of them homes inside city limits in Boulder County, Colorado. No one thought that could happen on the plains…

As I lie on the table, she expertly takes my pulse and asks me questions. I sense that she already knows the answers, this is not our first session. But this time, I have serious pain that has been diagnosed as an infection, Diverticulitis, and I’m on heavy antibiotics to…

We don’t have to be one percenters, billionaires, or oligarchs, to be arrogant. Yes, they are over the top. It’s easy to look at Elon Musk and see his arrogance, putting thousands of satellites into space because he can, with no thought to how that will affect the planet, planning…

This Christmas and Solstice and Kwanzaa week, a week of joy for many, a week of crisis for others, I decided to share with you a very personal poem that I wrote before moving and selling my house of 38 years, this past summer. My friend, Rita, had suggested that…

For decades, I’d held THE STORY and treasured it. I had tried writing it down, but didn’t have a good format for it. It wasn’t the story that a magazine might print. At least not any magazine that I knew of. It wasn’t the sort of story that I’d tell…

I’ve seen a lot of articles decrying the lack of workers these days. Journalists’ reasoning has merit. Food service workers haven’t made enough to live on for decades. With all the restaurant and related shut-downs last year, those workers found better paying jobs or retired. Another theory looks at Millennials…

When I was in high school, I had two teachers who made it their business to organize my brain. I was in Speech competitions like Humorous Interpretation and Extemporaneous Speaking. I did both on-stage and behind-the-scenes work on theater productions. Two teachers were involved with both. They saw what a…