The Downside, The Upside, The Dark Side
I’ve been waiting for you. Patiently waiting among the sepia pages and crisp black and white edges.
Writer’s Choice
Book Review of Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater
Instantly, the first chapter of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi introduces a peculiar, dissociative predicament, “By the time she (our body) struggled out into the world, slick and louder than a village…
Do You Love Your Reader?
Writing and love making have much in common. Through your imagination, you, Writer, caress your precious Reader and you are…
Mother Knows Best
The call I was expecting came just after two o’clock on a blustery March afternoon. Instead of going home after my meeting…
Obsession
Addiction is an obsession. It takes over mind, body, and soul. It seeps into your pores, hides between your toes, collects in the corners of your eyes and under your nails.
Bachelor Party
Sometimes it comes in fits and starts and sometimes all at once in a deluge, but when you’re edging thirty years old, riding passenger…
The Sunporch
“Your garden is like a park,” my mother-in-law would say when she came to visit us in Wisconsin from her home in Canada. It was a…
Bipolar, Diagnosis – Two Poems
The doctor adjusts his glasses, tells me the news. There isn’t much else. I leave the muted-colored office and beat my hands on the steering wheel.
The Other Eleven Months of the Year
I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) in 1991 at thirty years-old, following my second suicide attempt. Individuals who have BPD lack the ability to…