I don’t really know what has gotten into me this year. I started volunteering with the Kucinich campaign last fall motivated by nothing more than boredom and loneliness, and now I’ve taken on personal commitments to do whatever I can to get Bush out of the White House...
Let's bring the troops home now. NOW. The U.S. was wrong to attack Iraq in the first place, it's not on its way to being a Western-style democracy and we're going to end up bringing our troops home in failure anyway, so let's leave now. The insurgents are beginning to...
LOCATION: Nighttime, a bus stop in a large city. One lamp post gives light. A woman in her mid-thirties sits on the bus shelter bench, reading a newspaper with a dire headline, perhaps, “War Expected to Worsen.” She is maybe 5’2”, 130 pounds, a small woman. She...
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Would someone please explain to me what the thinking is of the people who are still planning to vote for George W this November? Anybody? Anybody?
One of my best friends ever was Rayfield A. Waller, a prolific writer, agile intellectual and urban quick wit from Detroit. We met when we entered the Cornell English PhD program in 1988 and stuck together in the trenches of it for four years. He was my partner in...
An atheist’s prayer Free of god-guilt weight Free of what-Jesus-would-do worry I make my way in a world clear of angels and clean of miracles Longing replaces prayer Gently now, gently can I love? Am I allowed? Do I have to wait until the world has time has healed has...
Spinster Underneath piles of wedding lingerie, dented brass dreams, rusted with disappointment, Under faded images of strong, handsome men with perfect teeth and silvery lace dusted with loneliness, I find quivering flesh, new and wet, excited to grow and stretch into...
We're eleven days away from the hand-over of power in Iraq and I feel new doubt about our -- the American people -- our decision-making ability. No, we didn't elect George W, but knowing what we know now, would we have allowed him to take office as easily as he did in...
I'm encouraged by the responses to yesterday's posting about America's foreign policy. Some responded here and some friends emailed me directly. Thank you for telling me you feel the same way. I feel less alone and I feel like a silence has been broken. I'm lightening...
The events themselves were horrifying and numbing at the same time. Constant reviewing of them, trying to determine how everything happened and why, keeps the events alive in my memory along with the pain and grieving I thought I had finished. There is no chance to...
What is this "edge" I refer to and what am I doing on it? Well, most days it's a hazy, far-off concept that doesn't concern me much. On bad days, it becomes the dividing point between sanity and delusion, the edge of my own reason, eh? And in my grandiose moments it...