She said, that while she was asleep, a snake had come and licked her ears so clean that she could hear the future. She wore a python skin belt, her undies sport a diamond back rattler pattern. She blinks a lot, and with each blink her gaze is redirected.
Her prophesies are always conditional, “If you [...]

Religion exists. Not just exists; dominates, permeates. It is perhaps the platform for our Darwinian imperatives, feed, breed, fight, flight. There’s a fifth imperative, to make meaning of, to understand why, to know a simple answer. For we are Darwinian searchers and explorers, that is essence of adaptation, and with our actual capacities we can [...]

It’s hard to be nice to a psychotic person – I understand this. Much easier to be empathic when a woman with Multiple Sclerosis stumbles, or the radiation isn’t shrinking the cancer patient’s tumor, or a body rejects a kidney transplant. When a mentally ill person’s medication fails her, she is the one to blame. [...]

The middle pair of windows on the third floor let in the light and summer air. These apartments are two windows wide and twenty feet long. Her kitchen is a microwave and toaster oven, the bathroom includes the only sink and garbage disposal. She makes her living tutoring rich city kids for college entrance exams. [...]

Imagine, if you can, the inability of people to save themselves from themselves. The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide goes up past 480 parts per million, then past 550 ppm. Oceans wipe out coastal areas, widespread desertification, in struggling over scarce resources the earth becomes a place of war, pestilence and famine; life for the [...]

The nature of printmaking in today’s technology is that prints are archival, look great and, in some cases, the same image can be bought in an assortment of sizes. You got a mantelpiece? Fine. You got a couple of square inches on the refrigerator? Ask.
Artists of some stripes have a statement, sometimes irreverent, to make [...]

Cooked an egg for the guy. Called mom. Looked at myself in the mirror as I showered; ugh, time to diet, exercise. Yesterday’s mail, a surprise there from an old chum, she wants to go from accountant to teacher at age forty five and has enrolled at the university. Read the New York Times, and [...]

Most giving and getting relationships that are not based on need but instead are simply “an act or feeling of benevolence, good will, or affection” revolve upon minor acts, whether or not the feelings are strong. On a good day we experience such giving and getting: a small compliment, some good listening, half a candy [...]