Month: July 2022
Political
Writing
We Don’t Need No Stinking Heroes
No matter which of the many addresses my sister and I lived at as we grew up, we always lived under my mother’s punishing roof. We were subjected to our alcoholic mom’s cruelty and humiliation when she managed to notice us; the rest of the time, we were merely neglected. (It wasn’t all bad, but […]
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Writing
My Side of the Moon
With my eyes closed and head tilted back against the top of my seat, under the dome of the Flandrau Planetarium, I remembered myself. I was sitting in the almost dark listening to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon in surround-sound with the laser light show flickering across my eyelids. Oh yes. This is […]
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