Through It All

August 16, 2020
          Thirteen years is a long time.  Two or more of those years in prison: that’s a long time, too.  A long time to let resentment grow, to be reshaped…

From Fearful to Cheerful

August 9, 2020
At a point of special relief and joy, Blanche DuBois, a character in Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, exclaims, “Sometimes there’s God, so quickly.”  Maybe we’ve each had…

Seed, Scattered and Sown

July 12, 2020
          I. Joshua’s parents took him to church when he was a boy—well, his mom did, every so often.  Once or twice his dad came along,…
I hear the grocery store in town has been cleaned out, but you can still get anchovies. In Lake Jackson, they’re fighting over canned asparagus. Tito’s vodka had to release…