You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

They have a few bucks, the 62 richest billionaires in the… The Big 62 have half as much weal… as the bottom half of the world’s… according to Oxfam International.

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in