Addressing Racism in Myself Before Talking to My Kids

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I always thought of myself as a "non racist," a person who knew it was wrong to judge someone by the…

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…disbelief, hoping what I was watching was just a dream, but no, it was a nightmare. I couldn’t take my eyes off of the screen as the reporter in Baltimore walked around the city. Freddie Gray had recently died in police custody and the city of Baltimore was rioting. I watched as the reporter walked past the charred vehicles…

By Kathleen Kempert

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All the Lonely People

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You can't always get what you want.

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…do they all come from? That’s the refrain from Paul McCartney’s song: Eleanor Rigby. Lyrics, melody, and string arrangement, combine to make it one of the most interesting songs of the twentieth century. Most people think of it as a well-crafted pop song. I think it’s more. The churning throb of the beat evokes…

By K. L. Shipley

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Every Sea Has Its Shore

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There is a deep need within the narrator to be free for her own safety, sanity. A begging to get out, begging…

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…belatedly now that the choice to be a fool in spine and soul was mine alone. The wise know that the living have no right to forget that nothing is ever lost and that one’s truths live…

By Chitra Gopalakrishnan

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