Category Archives: Notes

Micro-Memoir Freewrite. Poem 2. 2.5.2017

When I was in first grade, my parents moved us all to Appalachia. Like a gold rush town, this was a boom-time, both in promise and in progress. The boom was banking. The college-educated in that valley tended to be Read More

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Micro Memoir Freewrite. Poem 1. 2.4.2017

I’m having trouble with the notion that I am not “walking in another’s shoes” because I’m a college-educated New Yorker. An out-of-touch, East Coast liberal who can’t understand the pain of rural America today. I read this commentary about my Read More

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No Ban No Wall. NYC. 1.31.2017

Washington Square Park. NO BAN Protest. 1.25.2017 Where Is Justice  

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NYC Women’s March. 1.21.2017 /Posted 1.31.17

Listen To Artists. We Can Do It. My Sister. Why Are You Obsessed GOP? Not For Grabs.

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NYC. Protests. 1.31.2017

Central Park West. Night Before The Inauguration. 1.19.2017

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Post Election. The Blog. 1.31.2017

To be alive in times of trouble, in times of chaos, in times of uncertainty. Throughout my life, I’ve wondered if I could do what so many before me have done, could I be useful if called upon? From a Read More

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Haiku. Pic. 10.22.2016

After the travels from city dusk to mountains– this is our sidewalk. ~me, country.

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Haiku. Pic. 10.22.2016

Like punctuation– glowing pumpkins marching up city brownstone stairs. ~me, NYC.

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Leaves. Autumn. 10.22.2016

 

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Labor Day. Freewrite Poem. 9.5.2016

Labor Day All weekend, I’ve chased sunflowers, while the holiday cheered itself along with BBQs and revelers, every Airbnb stocked to capacity. The mountain stood back from these first shorter days cloaked in her luscious dignity, an end-of-summer worn to Read More

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