Still not finished, but here's some more. Take care, Jaleh. “Watch who they beat and who they eat,” he’d warn pedestrians. “Watch who they relieve themselves upon, watch who they own. Politics is the flesh, but economy is the bone.”…

I don’t usually like to write easy pieces, lightweight writing that slides down the gullet like a Hallmark card embedded in olive oil and avocado toast. My writing guru says, and often: “Go for the jugular.” With an almost grim…

A man sometimes named George Santos was expelled from the United States House of Representatives today. He was found guilty of being unethical in that great Chamber in which the bar for unethical conduct is apparently very, very low. He’s…

I wanted to say “I love you and I am sorry I have not been to see you in a year and a half. Since your 90th birthday and now you are well on your way to your 92nd one.”…

I wanted to say “I love you and I am sorry I have not been to see you in a year and a half.” Since your 90th birthday and now you are well on your way to your 92nd one.…

Something I wanted to say was Do Something with me! Please. Give me definition. I feel I am fading into a blur, nondescript, hair of no color, complexion too uneven and sallow. I'm grateful for my energy, my ability to…

I used to enjoy my daily writing exercise here until I was repeatedly connected with people that didn't reciprocate or in one case a writer who simply wrote the same thing over and over again, always horribly. It was depressing.…

One of the most wonderful and satisfying features of the Creative Caffeine process is that we get to meet and read different partners each week. I have been blessed with the most wonderful partners , gifted and thoughtful and literate…

Each morning when I sit down to complete my ten minutes of writing to the Creative Caffeine prompt, I have no idea what I might say. I rarely think that I have something to say. At the same time I…

“What did you just say to me?” Helen froze, her eyes sliding back and forth like that puppet in the side eye meme on the internet. “I uh… said I love your bag?” She cringed inwardly as the end of…

Dreams, the stuff of fantasy and wonder aren't really all that sweet. Our minds work on all sorts of puzzles throughout the night and for many those puzzles aren't sweet or pretty, no not at all. A little boy, filled…