Wendy Fox/Fiction

Wendy Fox/Fiction

flickr.com/lucychian  via unsplash.com *** When You Talk About the Weather   by Wendy Fox You and I are at a party somewhere, and first we have to talk about the weather, because we live in Denver, Colorado, where the skyline is unsettled and the temperature...
Susan Taylor Chchak/Fiction

Susan Taylor Chchak/Fiction

Binghamton University Crew photo *** COXSWAIN by Susan Taylor Chehak Do I have a drinking problem? Just wine, mostly. By the bottle. And here at these things I’m at my worst. I teach a class, conduct a conference, show up for the dinner or the lunch or the reading or...
Jim Palombo/Politics

Jim Palombo/Politics

Augusto Navarro photo/unsplash *** OFF THE CUFF by Jim Palombo This should be the last I’ll say about the presidential race. In short, Hillary will win as Donald continues his unpopularity with his so-called “own kind.” But don’t miss the real essence of what the...
Joe S. Pfister/Fiction

Joe S. Pfister/Fiction

Photo by Eric Draper, Courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Library President George W. Bush at work clearing brush at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas. *** George Bush Saved from Snakebite   by Joe S. Pfister   W on His Ranch Before Laura stirs...
Lauren Johnson/Travel

Lauren Johnson/Travel

The Roman Forum *** Sinkholes in the Cobblestone: What Lucia Berlin Taught Me about Rome   by Lauren Johnson I had been in Rome for about a week when the sanitation workers went on strike. I noticed something was off as I walked through Trastevere: an ancient,...