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Me Me Me

January 19, 2022 Tags: empathy, politics

In my posts to this website, as well as in my fiction, I’m conscious of writing from the point of view of an individual. The argument goes that when we depict personal experience, we speak for many others, even the whole of human experience. But do

The English Garden Rose

January 6, 2022 Tags: history, morality and justice, nature, politics

The many-petaled spiral of the English garden rose against the green of a mown lawn and the blue of a nearly cloudless sky brings feelings of wellbeing to our hearts and minds. It sparks a spring day with red, yellow or orange. It is lovely and

Gonna Go to Texas

November 30, 2021 Tags: humor, politics, satire

Hey y’all, We’re heading to Texas, and I’m getting into that Texas spirit!! Just itching to climb into these cowboy boots and hitch up these Texas-size britches for a spell. I’ve put in an order at the airport’s rent-a-gun store for a Glock and

Righting the Wrong Word

November 18, 2021 Tags: censorship, history, literature, morality and justice, politics, word usage

A few months ago, drafting my response to a questionnaire in advance of an upcoming interview in connection with Caroline, I wrote the phrase “fiction’s ghetto.” Here’s the question and my original answer: Q: Do you have a target reader? A:

Can’t You Hear my Heart Beat? Texas’s New Anti-Abortion, Pro-Vigilante Law

September 9, 2021 Tags: politics, well-being and medical

1 With the romantically labeled “Texas Heartbeat Act,” Texas’s Republican-controlled government has deputized individual citizens to sue anyone who might be involved in abortion. The target could be a doctor, a cab driver unknowingly transporting a

A Hand, or Two, for Simone Biles

August 12, 2021 Tags: empathy, politics, well-being and medical

Without looking or touching, our right and left hands each knows where the other is. I hadn’t given that magical awareness any thought until I lost it after last month’s surgery to remove a bone spur from my shoulder. All of a sudden, my right hand

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