cancellation

We are living  existing in daily contention, you and I, all of us together.  We all insist we opinions matter, speech is free, journalism matters, diversity is honored, and yet that isn’t really true.  In the last several days, days and days, arguments are erupting over gun rights, free speech,…

justice ain’t (color)blind

Dear Small Town Police: I’ve let this simmer in my heart and mind for a few months now so that I wouldn’t be too angry when I finally wrote you.  And yet, it seems that the longer I wait the longer the indignation seems to boil slowly.  It suffocates me,…

joy in failing

I rarely finish what I begin when it comes to writing.  I have many unfinished drafts of short stories, novels, and even children’s picture books.  All at various stages of “starts”.  It’s as if I have built an author’s greenhouse and have cultivated story seedlings.  They are all in precious…