Why is the sight of a moon sliver and a bright star next to it so beautiful? I want it to mean something. So much coming at us, and I f...

photo by Carl Jackson On Friday night, poet and MacArthur Genius, Heather McHugh, graced a room full of my friends who came to watc...

My Mississippi Grandmother, Ida Mae and my Syrian Immigrant Grandfather, Charles Brooklyn, New York mid-20th century* What was...

The only person in these parts who is super human is Sophie. She's basically arisen from a fast-declining, near-comatose state that ...

poster by Shepard Fairey The EPA was just directed to freeze all grants. This means that graduate students and researchers funded on...

I've been writing a long time. My father sent me the scrap of paper above which I'll add to a little box full of poems and stori...

The most terrible possibility of the post-inaugural world—the one most feared by many people I know—is a serious increase in hatred, v...

copied from my friend Michael's Women's March sign Unknown left a comment on my last post or, rather, a question. Here it ...

I am completely undone by th...

Incantation Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can pr...

We've had a lot of rain here in Los Angeles the last month or so, and everything is greener than it's been in over five years. ...

Bear, looking into a Connecticut school classroom GUNS and GRIZZLY BEARS! Have ya'll been watching the shitshow on C-Span? Who k...

I take care of Sophie at home with the help of her father and a part-time babysitter because of a Medicaid waiver that she qualifies for...

This weekend I'm determined to not be swept away by all the terrible stuff going down in our country. I'm fleeing, actually, t...