Fear Of

I read this Raymond Carver poem with middle school students: Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. Fear of falling asleep at night. Fear of not falling asleep. Fear of the past rising up. Fear of the present taking flight. Fear of the telephone that rings in the dead of night. Fear […]

Truths

Truth: In these last few years of (sort of) voluntary reduced means, one spending pleasure that remains is the grocery store. There is no concern at the grocery store for if one should be spending money, one must buy food, mustn’t one? A child of the ’80s, the grocery store is also the only place […]

Flags

He was telling me he forgot the name of the town that is just south of Garnett. I wonder if he is a Trump supporter, I thought. “I’m sure I don’t know it, anyway,” I said. “I hardly know anyplace in Kansas, except along the way to Colorado. My great-grandparents’ farm was near Lancaster, though, […]

Maundy Thursday, Notre Dame

This is the first Maundy Thursday in maybe 800 years without mass. Notre Dame is empty but for the ashes of her considerable hat, and the waterlog of the saving spray. There must be people who always have the triduum at Notre Dame, and this time, for the first year, they will hear the Passover […]