By Jiminy! The restaurants are open. The shops are open. “We’re back!” trumpets the noise media. Ignore the man behind the curtain. Everything’s great. Oh…
I went to a theatrical opening at San Francisco Playhouse this past weekend. It was my first visit to a theatre since COVID began. It…
An interview with Jessica Barksdale from The Write Stuff series: Jessica Barksdale’s fifteenth novel, The Play’s the Thing, and second poetry collection, Grim Honey, were both published spring 2021. Her…
I suppose I am not alone, as we all begin to move on from our year of COVID isolation, in assessing my life style and…
So, if you believe the newspapersAnd the cable newscastsCOVID is overSpoken of in the past tenseWhile millions continue to dieIn India and elsewhere The anticipated…
I recently cleaned up my painting studio. It was refreshing. Even though I’ve had oodles of available time during the Year of Covid, this is…
I opened Facebook this morning to find a post from my friend Jerry telling me that his childhood home had been destroyed. Carted off like…
I like to arrange things as I goddamn please. Take my bookcase for example. I arrange the books the way I like. I put things…
I overslept this morning When I do that, I always have a sense that something is wrong. Although I have not been clinically depressed for…
An interview with Matthew Clark Davison from The Write Stuff series: Matthew Clark Davison‘s debut novel, Doubting Thomas, will be published in Summer 2021 by Amble Press. He…