Archive for February, 2004
Brothers
A foul and acrid odor greets the noseand violates the shirt, the pant, the underwearfor hours, days, weeks, unwashed.Plastic flip-top lid concealsthe quartered fruit, so dryand old, unworthy of gin or tongue.Tired, sad, bilirubin-stained facessurround the parallelogram giving more than they receiveand much less than they asked for.Age marked in hollows, dents, and chips.Laughters, hard [...]
Writing Doomed?
Julia Smillie wonders if technology and blogging has doomed writers.
1. Mediocre writing always had a following, even though it didn’t transcend eras.2. Good writing still sells and IS read, while bad writing sells and sits.3. When I first started trying to get published in the 1980s, I read The Writer and Writer’s Digest religiously. [...]
Social Services Snobs
I recently had an experience with a social services agency that paints an unfriedly face for the organization.
Almost
Home, run by the Franciscan Sisters of St. Mary, provides teen mothers
with the chance to make a better life for themselves and their
children. In exchange for going to school, remaining free from drugs,
establishing the norms of social [...]
Social Services Snobs, Part II
Why can they not even send a simple acknowledgement? Don’t they realize that a woman with a college degree wants to take a pay cut to work a nasty job helping society’s most vulnerable people, it’s a compliment? I even sent Target gift cards to the center so some of the young women could buy [...]
Don’t Take a Breath
until you’ve read this piece.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/robinson200402060920.asp
Today is Ronald Reagan’s 93rd birthday.
Godspeed, Gipper.
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