Saint Valentine’s Day 2017
byThe Ottoman poet Mihri Hatun wrote: At one glance, I love you with a thousand hearts. I’ve always been taken with that opening line,…
The Ottoman poet Mihri Hatun wrote: At one glance, I love you with a thousand hearts. I’ve always been taken with that opening line,…
Social media are filled with encouragement to ‘become aware’. There are all sorts of legitimate and genuinely urgent things about which awareness should be…
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I have fallen in love with a most unique young woman, and that I eagerly look forward to every time I encounter her. I…
It’s been over a month since I last published, and there have been numerous changes in my life to explain my silence. I have…
Hello! Hooray! Let the show begin I’m ready Hello! Hooray! Let the lights grow dim We’ve been ready (Rolf Kempf) Here I am, Shakespeare’s…
Many years ago, I was in a fish market in Chinatown. A woman came in to buy a fish, and pointed out the live…
As a writer, I’m always alert to the power of words. As a person with PTSD, I am acutely aware of the power of…