Tag: war

The high pitched whine of the grinder disturbs the early morning like a banging screen door across a graveyard. The charm of the pet’s waking routines and the s

Nothing makes one reflect like defeat. I drove a hundred miles to cast my ballot and threw away my vote. America was attacked and now we have entrenched in a wa

His body no longer serves him, and he is reduced to the care of others. None of his family says it out loud, but think the duration of his dying, and the work h

We have shifted out of reason into faith. The believers are our nation’s majority whose collective power have given us a continuation of policy born of predeter

Perhaps it is the early morning before people wake and the empty house, save my sleeping wife who must rest for her work day, or this old room having been here

We pretend the discipline of once-a-day feeding, old raggedy assed Coco and the Queensland Heeler. They do their morning dance as the dishes are put before them

When I was drafted out of college, and Americans were dying at a fierce rate in Korea, and Truman’s War put the President in political hot water, and my father

We sat in my daughter’s comfortable home and talked of what made me a pacifist, my non-combatant military experience and the lieutenant colonel in New York who