Saturday, December 03, 2022

BALL OF MIRTH

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by Dick Altman As if the fate of nations hung in the balance, World Cup enters its final laps. Though it would bring a smile, if my hometown...
Friday, December 02, 2022

COSMOPOLITAN

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by Catherine Gonick Shirt available from TEEPUBLIC When my father used the term for what we were I didn’t know that cosmopolitan was code f...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

FOR EVERY LOST SOUL, A CANDLE

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by Mary K O'Melveny Glowing Christmas candle in frosted home window, photograph by Thomas Baker — Fine Art America For every lost soul, ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

FAVORITE GODDESS

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by Karen Warinsky   Cynthia waxes,  manages her money, shops off season for the children’s clothes, stretches the meat with casseroles, smil...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

RUSSIAN MOTHER’S DAY MESSAGE

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by Bruce Bennett As anger over the drawn-out invasion simmers in Russia, President Vladimir Putin on Friday held his first public meeting of...
Monday, November 28, 2022

MOVING RIGHT ALONG

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by Steven Kent They’re saying now the quiet parts out loud, These candidates and pundits. Boys are Proud, Who bigotry and bloodshed advocate...
Sunday, November 27, 2022

FAR FROM HIM I WATCH A UKRAINIAN SURVIVOR ON THE NEWS

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by  Therése Halscheid A man carries water bottles as he crosses a destroyed bridge in the frontline town of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine'...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

TRUMP IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, AGAIN

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by  Susan Cossette Photograph by Mark Wilson / Getty via The New Yorker It is Wednesday,   another happy hour at the Chesterbird American Le...
Friday, November 25, 2022

A POEM FOR UKRAINE

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by David James “Writing My Heart Out,” a painting by Gladiola Sotomayor. I want to write a poem that will lick   your heart clean, that will...

HAIKU

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Original photo:  People keep warm by fires outside the main rail terminal in Lviv, Ukraine. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images v...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

MASSASOIT’S DAUGHTER, MIONEAIME

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by Suzette Bishop Massasoit Sachem  or  Ousamequin  (c. 1581 – 1661) was the  sachem  or leader of the Pokanoket sachemship.  Massasoit  mea...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

JANUARY 28, 1986

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by Bonnie Proudfoot All morning we waited, the January air frigid and clear,  "Come see," I said, pointing at the tv. You settled ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

ANTHROPOPHOBIA

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by Daniel Lurie More than a week after four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in a house near campus, the police chief lead...
Monday, November 21, 2022

THE GREAT AMERICAN AMISH POWER TRIP

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by James Schwartz  Now, some Amish across northern Ohio find themselves clashing with a new state law designed to reduce accidents and enhan...