Interpolating A Poem: As Opposed To Prayer*
Sean MurphyI. Nervous and unnerved this evening, alone: Searching for solace, something not unlike prayer, A hope that the past will not repeat itself, Progress: a preemptive strike, this procedure (They…
This Family’s Story: The Beginning of the End*
I didn't need a doctor to tell me that it was over. On the way to no longer being, a person suffering from a terminal disease, like cancer, ceases to…
When I have fears that I may cease to be…*
I. Til Love and Fame to nothingness do sink When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high piled…
This is the country we live in
As I watch, with much anticipation mixed with wary optimism (amongst other feelings) how things unfold in Egypt, it's impossible to overlook a story like this from today's Boston Globe.…
Sexism Sells…But Who’s Buying? (Revisited)
Our attitudes toward sex tell us just about everything we need to know about ourselves. Go ahead and open a book, put on the TV, pop in a DVD or…
Looking Into The Sun*
(March, 2000) I look down at my mother as she lay dying. It was worse than I expected. (You don’t expect anything; you worry and fear and anticipate and dread…
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
ON THIS DAY: On Jan. 21, 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 54.
Say Anything
It could have been a great story. Boy moves across the country (actually across the town, but at age nine it’s the same difference), girl moves into house across the…
MLK: Remembering The Man and Acknowledging Unfinished Business
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." --Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) All we need…
2010: Time To Die (Part Two: July-December)
2010: In pace requiescat! This one hurt. The spectacular career of Bob Probert had already ended; his life ended entirely too soon (at the absurdly young age of 45), on…