I look on the eighteen short stories in How Daddy Lost His Ear and Other Stories as a miracle I will never entirely understand—or need to—but here’s a stab at it.
I’m Proud!
I’ve changed and the site has changed since I started it in 2002.
The Medial Woman
I propose to counter panic with specific remedies, for panic only hands more power to the oppressor.
The Uses of Armor
The world seems to require us to protect ourselves now, and maybe always.
Some Miracles
I’ve been blessed often in my life but seldom as fully as in this past week.
Live Wires
As the tide of misogamy sweeps toward us, I’m noticing—as perhaps some of you have—that women are falling silent.
The Nature of Evil
In the last few days, I’ve had to face the fact that now, if for the first time, Evil is operating in our world.
Sometimes I Feel Discouraged
We cannot afford to be discouraged for long. Above all, we cannot afford to be afraid.
Cures for the Blues
We’ve been told by many authorities to get outside and walk… another surefire cure for the blues is poetry… And then there’s the power in singing, anytime, anywhere with any kind of voice.
The Slow and Painful Process of Change
An article in a recent New Yorker reminded me of how unable to change I was as a college student in the late 1950s when the old rules were breaking all around me.