“I’m nervous.” “What are you nervous about?” My wife asked me. “What if something bad happens? I know they will have security. It’s just things are so heated right now.” “I’m sure there will be protesters there. There always are at these things.” She sighed and we both looked at the road ahead. Then more […]
The past couple of weeks have left my head spinning with very little to no time to process all that has deeply affected me. From the tragic loss of the person (Naomi Judd) who cowrote and sang much of the soundtrack to my childhood, to the terrible nature of the leaked Supreme Court document which […]
The death of Rush Limbaugh has brought up an unexpected feeling in me – grief. No, not for him, but for my father, or rather – who my father should have been, instead of who he is and has become. As a child, my dad led the adult Sunday School class, the choir, and later […]
I’m just going to come out and say it right here in the beginning, even though I know it isn’t the popular opinion right now. I think Ellen is right. And before you start to formulate your arguments back, post the memes and excerpts from other writers, and quote James Baldwin to me (Whom I […]
Last night I dreamtabout my neighborsNo, not the ones wholive nearby The ones whose criesI can’t get outof my head Whose facesbrown and tiredhave endured morethan I’ll ever know Like the women I’ve sat withand listened towhose stories of homelandsound like nightmares and weeping My neighborwho worries her sonmay not come homewhile I hold mine […]