Equipoise, Whee!

On the page for today’s date, the 29th of December, my poem Equipoise appears in the global datebook, We’Moon 2014. This...

Empress of the Americas

She has many names, the woman who appeared on the hill in Tepeyac in 1531, and spoke in the Nahuatl...

They Still Teach Me

They Still Teach Me

My process in writing Tales from My Teachers on the Alzheimer’s Unit was both lightning fast and haltingly slow. The...

The Ballad of Jesse Pearl by Shannon Hitchcock

The Ballad of Jesse Pearl by Shannon Hitchcock

When her sister Carrie, who is dying of TB, asks Jesse to describe her heaven, and Jessie says it smells...