As the year comes to an end and I can't evade all the news wraps-ups for the last twelve months, I am depressed. I accidentally read an article about the emergence of autocracies all over the world, especially in the…

Oddly, the very first thing I thought of when reading this morning's prompt was my husband. Not the dishonest, craven people i know of who take advantage of every opportunity to take what is not rightfully theirs to take- not…

I sat on Zoom with my endocronologist in early 2024, listening as she explained that there's something in U.S. soil that's different from the soil in Europe. She didn't have studies to support this, but she had patients who'd moved…

The women stared at the debris, stirred up by the storm. Twigs and branches were gnarled into each other, like a giant’s bird’s nest resting on the front lawn. Or what once was. A tree had toppled across the road.…

Guns no longer function, tanks, missiles, surface-to-air munitions, drones. Flame-throwers, rocket launchers, swords in hand. Hands lashing out in violence, words sent out in anger, a hand raised to hit, to punch, to maim. None of it works, oil cannot…

Every once in a while And I don’t know how to repeat it I get a glimpse of a sunlit world Beautiful sand castles near the shiny sea A benign tide Long rollers Fat toddlers with big brimmed hats Digging…

(Note: this follows what you read last time.) Sleet started to fall, crisping the ends of my hair. I got into the rental and drove back to my dad’s house, where my Uncle Wade was waiting on the porch with…

I think my great character fault – well, one of them, anyway – was that I had no dream. I mean I had no hell-bent, clearly-focused vision of what I wanted to do, what I wanted to become. Ambitions and…

We don’t seem to like one another very much anymore in America. Not like we did before COVID, and not like we did before Trump. You’d think that the awful losses we shared during the virus and the shutdown would…

Take what’s still given? I do take it; I take whatever is offered. I blank on the rest, push it aside. Yet, as I sit on this airplane and watched young parents with babies and children, I can’t help but…

We are all limited by what we think we deserve .....and when it comes to the knowledge of our futures, we are all limited by what we don't even know we don't know..... what we don't know we don't know…