I daydreamed of outing them: Uncle Bob Nelson; the nameless teenage boy; Paul Palmer, the family doctor. I dreamed of my father beating them, of me taking a baseball bat to them, of doors with metal bars locking them away forever, the key lost. I Read More …
Black Out I remember walking home alone from Shady Lane. I was in “Brownies” and our leader sent us home early. I was wearing the uniform and the sash. No one was on the streets. But it couldn’t have been later than 5 or 6 Read More …
It has been an honor to write this column for ROAR for the past year. I will continue fighting the hate with my words and by attending marches and rallies. I will continue to support the organizations that fight hate on a daily basis, like Read More …
It began, those many years ago, with a brother lost at sea….a boy the selkies never returned. That set our girl on uneven ground, forever in jeopardy of falling, of failing. ************** When the local feudal lord noticed our girl’s tendency to wander, to dream, Read More …
2017 was the year that women stopped self-silencing: minimizing our opinions, softening the message. From the millions of protesters at the Women’s March in January, to the historic November 2017 elections with its veritable litany of ‘first-ever’ elected female officials, to the ongoing #metoo campaign Read More …
Labor Unions Still Fighting for their Workers Ever since Ronald Regan was president, unions have been dying off. Killed, really. The labor movement in the United States grew out of the need to protect the common interest of workers. For those in the industrial sector, Read More …
Silence rode in the car with them, like a passenger. He parked in the clinic lot. Lit a cigarette. Stared out the open window. She looked at him. Opened her mouth, said nothing. It was 11:00 in the morning. The sun high, hot. He popped Read More …
When I tuned to E! to watch the 14th season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, I was expecting mindless entertainment. I’d been up all through the night writing, and I wanted to distract myself from both my impending deadlines and the terrifying reality that Read More …
New Year’s Revolution (This is not a typo. Let’s resolve to revolt!) We have survived 2017. This is the year we will overturn the Republican Congress, filling its ranks with Democrats from across the nation. With a Democratic Congress, we can #resist President Trump’s malicious Read More …
Agamemnon to Joyce The hardest part of being here in Hades’ far reaching shadow is not recognizing the dead. When life goes, memory wanders also. My one hope, as my wife tightened the rope around my robe and Aegisthus played his knife across my neck, Read More …