“Fiction is the art form of human yearning.” – Robert Olen Butler
“We are living...Chief?) – does little to quell its effect on my psyche. I’m in fight-or-flight mode all the time, feeling angry a...
Let’s say I were like the journalist Mahmoud al-Sawadi in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad. Mahmoud lucked into a period of preventive detention and had time to...
A recent interview in the Free Times Press. For all you Baby Boomers out there. Don't ever give up! Life is just getting going! http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/columns/story/2017/sep/28/kennedy-putting-boom-back-boomers/451534/
Hello again. I’ve been away too long, I know. My bad. But I’ve been working, and I have news: My chapbook, "Inchworms: Poems, Sketches, and Stories" has been published...
To Tell The Truth essay for MAT @ 9/22/20 +PROMO files
In a few days I’ll send out the email book-launch announcement about my book, Victory Is My Name, a Me...
Window of Tolerance
During these uncertain and frightening times, I do a lot of wondering about just how all of us put up with cruelty, racism, random fear, greed...
Scores of people crowded into a ballroom and sat at tables furiously taking notes, even more furiously tapping out tweets and urgently asking questions at a Sunshine W...