SOUTH OF THE ZOOM SCREEN Photo Courtesy of Sonia Nadales 0:00 / 0:00 South of the Zoom Screen Recently, I combined my light clothes with my dark clothes in the washing machine—an unthinkable act in my prior life. As the washer churned and my whites got dingier, I realized my universe had shifted. For good […]
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CONTEMPT Photo Courtesy of Marcus Voetter These past four years the daily news has made my blood boil and my blood pressure rise. One way I’ve maintained my sanity is to watch YouTube clips of Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee. These talented folks helped me to cry less and laugh more. They do
DON’T NEVER EVER GIVE UP 0:00 / 0:00 Don't Never Ever Give Up Years ago, I came across an older woman with a prominent tattoo. Amidst the wrinkles, I spotted, “DON’T NEVER EVER GIVE UP.” Immediately, the ghost of Miss Mercer, my ninth-grade grammar teacher appeared. She cackled, “A double-negative creates a positive statement!” Bad
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MAYHEM WASPS Photo Courtesy of James Wainscott 0:00 / 0:00 Mayhem Wasps In this year of our Lord 2020, I feel as if I’ve been in hand-to-hand combat with Mother Nature. Currently, I am covered in poison ivy. I have blisters on my body in places I heretofore did not know existed. The worst spots
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HOSTILE RESTING FACE Photo Courtesy of David Veksler 0:00 / 0:00 Hostile Resting Face Years ago, I worked as the program director of the Injury Prevention Resource and Research Center at Dartmouth Medical School. As part of my job, I lobbied for car seat/seat belt legislation in New Hampshire, a state whose motto is Live
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THE CONCEPT OF SKEEVY Photo Courtesy of Nathan Dumlao 0:00 / 0:00 Skeevy As far as I know, all of my maternal Italian American ancestors survived the pandemic of 1918. My theory is that they beat the Spanish flu because they governed their lives by the hygienic principles of skeevy. The word skeevy is Italian
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LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID Photo Courtesy of Youseff Naddam 0:00 / 0:00 Love in the Time of Covid On a recent morning, I awoke at five to the sound of our basement door closing two floors below. In order to keep me safer, my husband is now living down there in a little
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THE WRONG KIND OF WOMANBOOK REVIEW Sarah McCraw Crow’s novel transports the reader to the 1970’s at a fictional college similar to Dartmouth. The era is turbulent, both culturally and politically, much like America today. The parallels between now and then are uncanny: a sharply divided nation experiencing a tsunami of discord. Some people push
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MISS JUNETEENTHMOVIE REVIEW Miss Juneteenth is a movie that I happened upon last night while scrolling through new releases. The film had premiered at Sundance this past January and that caught my eye. I had no idea what to expect. Channing Godfrey Peoples wrote and directed Miss Juneteenth. She did an excellent job with both.
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HALFBOOK REVIEW I read Sharon Harrigan’s novel, HALF, in two sittings. It was that good. HALF is a story about identical twins named Artis and Paula, named for Zeus’s twins, Artemis and Apollo. They live with a father who is a monster and a mother who enables him. Told in the first-person plural, Harrigan credibly
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