52 weeks. 52 Stories.

At the beginning of 2017 I joined The Writing Cooperative’s 52-Week Writing Challenge with my commitment to write one story per week. I decided to make healing the loose theme running through the work.

Week One

A couple of years ago I had the brilliant idea of Tweeting exactly one Tweet per day for a year.

Week Two

Death, Taxes and Healthcare Legislation.

Week Three

A Small Container for Cheese.

Week Three (Extra Credit)

An Inaugural Bestiary.

Week Four

Dear World, We’re Sorry.

Week Five

A Small Note of Hope on Healthcare.

Week Six

Who is 84 Lumber and Where Do I Go to Get Some 2x4s?

Week Seven

Truth vs. The Refugee Ban.

Week Eight

Old Snow

Week Nine

The Glorious Revolution.

Week Ten

Big Shiny Health Care Promises.

Week Eleven

A Writer’s Day.

Week Twelve

Awake in the Night Country.

Week Thirteen

Do You Bet The Nest Egg on Mr. Trump?

Week Fourteen

Looking for Truth in the Syrian Flames.

Week Fifteen

Learning from Old Walls.

Week Sixteen

Stupid Can Be the Writer’s Friend.

Week Seventeen

A Precious Night at Home.

Week Eighteen

When I watched the new Heineken ad where people with opposing viewpoints work together to assemble…

Week Nineteen

Time-traveling Up Portugal’s Douro Valley.

Week Twenty

What I Learned from the 52-Week Writing Challenge.

Week Twenty-One

The American Regency.

Week Twenty-Two

Re-branding the Democrats.

Week Twenty-Three

An Observation.

Week Twenty-Four

Black Widow Politics.

Week Twenty-Five

Is It Time to Rescue the Second Amendment from the Gun Lobby?

Week Twenty-Six

A Trout Stream Clear as a Crystal Ball.

Week Twenty-Seven

Reborn on the Fourth of July.

Week Twenty-Eight

The Remote.

Week Twenty-Nine

The Truth in Healthcare Act.

Week Thirty

My Strangest Day of Writing.

Week Thirty-One

The Senator from Rome.

Week Thirty-Two

Baby’s First Transaction.

Week Thirty-Three

The Trust Vacuum.

Week Thirty-Four

Letter from the Boundary Waters.

Week Thirty-Five

A Day at the Emergency Room.

Week Thirty-Six

Writing in Bars.

Week Thirty-Seven

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody claps, did I really write about it?

Week Thirty-Eight

Re-branding the Democrats (revisited).

Week Thirty-Nine

Road Repairs.

Week Forty

Writer, Do You Feel Lucky?

Week Forty-One

The Long War to Save Healthcare.

Week Forty-Two

Trump vs. Toddler.

Week Forty-Three

Twitter and I.

Week Forty-Four

Is It Time to Rename My Mountain?

Week Forty-Five

Being Two at the Zoo.

Week Forty-Six

Martin and Francis.

Week Forty-Seven

Running, thankfully.

Week Forty-Eight

Somewhere in the second act of the screenplay, I met me.

Week Forty-Nine

Ghost Pizza.

Week Fifty

The Stoned-16-Year-Old Presidency.

Week Fifty-One

Sick Day.

Week Fifty-Two

Did America Invent Something Even Better than Democracy?