the Heat

the living is easy fish are jumping and the cotton is high your daddy’s rich and your mama’s good looking so hush, little baby don’t you cry Saturday, September 1, 1923, an 8.0 earthquake killed 100,000 people in Japan. Homes shaken into ruins left millions of people homeless. I ran across this bit of history […]

End

We packed up and cleaned out my dad’s office, ending his legal career and small business ownership of 47 years, the people in and out of the doors were his children, family friends, and a colleague of 40 years, and a wife, and an ex-wife. All my life dad’s office existed, a third place where […]

Put A Ring On It

Last week I was handed a stack of surveys for my students. Some of the questions were about their sexual practices (or lack thereof). I sort of hated to touch the things, even blank. They suggested to me that our assembly the next day would be about sexual practices (or lack thereof), the tail of […]