I’m trying to understand the simple cruelty behind the entrenched tribalism in the United States. I just finished “How the Word is Passed” by Clint Smith and I am still reeling. His book is a recollection of his visits, pilgrimages really, to significant locations of Slave keeping and the transactions…

I’ve been trying to frame my feelings since our participation in the Independence Day parade. Mark drove his beautiful 65 Thunderbird and we were a part of several cars from the Sunshine Region AACA car club of which he is Vice President. We were ferrying Chuck, a highly decorated Army…

Whispers of optimism

Terminal Understanding There is an odd tenderness that comes with aging. Perhaps it is that we understand our own fragility or that we can see the end of time from here and wish to be gentle as we move our gaze forward. I’m not sure. Like everything else now I…

Justice Kagan recently gave a most eloquent dissent to the Supreme Court’s decision on over-ruling worship restrictions. “I fervently hope that the Court’s intervention will not worsen the nation’s Covid crisis. But if this decision causes suffering, we (referring to the members of the Court) will not pay. …

A Novel In Installments Chapter 9 Chati and her daughter stared at the man menacing them at the end of the houseboat. “What do you mean my bride price tripled? …

A Novel in Installments Chapter 8 In her three card reading, the cards of the Nine of Swords, the Fool, and the Lovers appeared. As Olive looked at the cards before her and realized Gabriel was well away from his captors but nearer danger. She and the handsome astrologer were…

Shape shifting As I have aged my body has changed. Some for the better, some not so much. As I have aged I have changed my body as well: I’ve fed it…great things, bad things, poisonous things, restorative things. All manner of things over the many decades I have inhabited…

Going to Pot