ABCs of COVID—TWO YEARS LATER 2022
Almost through the pandemic Because people wore masks, stayed apart, and got vaccines. COVID is still here but Deaths and cases decrease...
SHAKEN TO THE CORE
Its November 22, 1963. I am a Freshman in high school sitting in French class when I see my sister through the glass windows of the...
ABC of Covid
In a writing group in May 2020, I was encouraged to create a poem using the letters of the alphabet, each line another letter. Here it...
Not Now
NOT NOW: A LETTER TO MY GRANDCHILDREN March 28, 2020 Dear Isaac, Rex, Orion and Denali, I am writing this from the office inside my...
THE REAL NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS
Recently I asked a friend about her children. “My oldest just got a job as a data analyst at an elementary school,” she said. “He loves...
A TRIBUTE TO TIME (and to the DHS class of 1967)
Time moves on. Relentlessly. Turn around. Blink. A half century goes by. Fifty years. Five decades. 600 months. 2,600 weeks. 18,250 days...
Walking in Tirimbina
The Tirimbina Biologic Reserve, in the humid tropical lowlands of Costa Rica, consists of about eight-hundred and fifty acres of dense...
My Father Was A Prophet
“In America, the home of the free, there are more walls keeping people in or holding people out than in almost any other nation. After...
I Won't Just Get Over It
I am tired of white men saying, “The election is done. Just get over it.” I am not going to “get over it.” We are not going to “get over...
LEMONADE ON LIBERTY ISLAND
You’ve planned the perfect vacation. You bought museum tickets in advance, reserved hotel rooms, marked every rest stop along the way....
