It was a cold, dreary, fall day when my grandmother died. She’d had congestive heart failure and died on the operating table. The woman was all of four foot eleven and I think four inches of that was the mound of white hair she had on top of her head. …

I think the effects of covid-19 on our country will be long and drawn out. I’m not just talking about the physical manifestation but the psychological, sociopolitical, and socioeconomic impact of this disease. Bear with me. A nurse friend of mine pointed out that, as Americans, we’ve forgotten what the…

Judge Ketanji Brown — a judge picked by Joe Biden to sit on the Supreme Court, has in the past couple of weeks had the indignity of having to explain herself to a committee of people who purposefully mispronounced her name, who asked her ridiculous questions such as Sen. Marsha…

I have spent the past several years on a spiritual journey as a white cis gendered male. …

Lauren Hough was a name that I did not know two weeks ago. A friend of mine contact me via Facebook and asked if I’d heard about the latest dustup concerning an author on Twitter. Nope. I am permanently banned on Twitter for standing up to White Supremacists. I digress. …

I’ve been throwing a lot of information at you over the last several days. A lot of it is disturbing, upsetting, and bleak. I get that. Trust me, I do. I was telling my husband this morning, that the process of writing this stuff has been tough. It was like…

“I can’t stay on your life support There’s a shortage in the switch I can’t stay on your morphine ’Cause it’s making me itch I said I tried to call the nurse again But she’s being a little bitch I think I’ll get outta here, where I can Run just as fast as I can To the…

“And there was a God in Heaven And the world made perfect sense We were young and were in love and we were easy to convince We were headed straight for Eden It was just around the bend And though I had forgotten all about it The song remembers when” …

“….and then I asked a corner preacher, I couldn’t hear him for my youth. Some people get religion. Some people get the truth. I never get the truth. I never get the truth.” — “Looking out” Brandi Carlile This is the part of the story where I describe for you…