A few months ago, I developed sciatica. A cortisone injection didn’t help. Nor did physical therapy. At one point I was almost incapable of dressing…
On Easter Sunday, I drove to San Francisco.I wanted to have an adventure. I rook my time driving to the city, dawdling along the freeway…
As 2020 recedes into memory, I am struck again by the insight that this particular year is a watershed in the history of the world….
It is 5:55 P.M. and today I was supposed to publish a column for The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse. And here I sit. Facing…
It seems like forever since I’ve been for long walks. In the early months of COVID isolation (begun just three days short of a year…
I can’t imagine what life might be like for those who have never faced thoughts of suicide or periods of depression. But if offered such…
Quiet Lightning presents their 138th show, curated by Tom Pyun & Mary Ann Thomas and held virtually on Monday, February 1, 2021, with readings/performance by (in the…
At the Horizon School for Gifted Children it was announced that there would be an art contest. All the students would make something. A picture,…
Hello everybody, and hooray! It is 2021. And I will no longer be identifying these columns as “Covid Editions”—now that a new administration will be…
About the prize The Jane Underwood Poetry Prize was established to celebrate and memorialize Jane Underwood, the founder and long-time director of The Writing Salon…