Emigration Vs. Immigration By Roger Johnson To emigrate is to leave one’s country to live in another. To immigrate is to come from another country to live permanently. A fine line but perhaps an even larger, more encompassing word that covers this all is change. To leave one’s way of life and adopt another […]
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Focus on Art By Rob Mohr “Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the looking glass room.” Lewis Carroll—Through the Looking Glass The rich metaphorical stories by Lewis Carroll give the reader new understandings concerning the worlds created by artists through artifacts and performances. Art makes hidden worlds manifest through
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Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum All of us will be busy in the next few weeks with holiday activities – going places, gathering with friends, eating delicious food, buying gifts, and hopefully pausing long enough to appreciate what we have in our lives. During this time, do think about those who may not be
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Child Of Fear Child of fear, partly formed middle-aged man! You flounder bravely to catch your lost youth, A knotted ball of yearning to be free, You now attempt to unravel. The rights of passage never were endured To take you to manhood. Haltingly you test your courage, Try to go beyond your coddled
Walking Luna —By Shelly Smith— Luna – descending from a proud race, but still in need of daily exercise. My tempo dictated to by the nose of a dog. Outside circumstances. Walking Luna is not so much walking as stopping. I stop. I stop. Impatient to be moving on. Blindly waiting – eyes rolling
Remember By Michael Cook Some people say to me Who are you To that I say just history Who are you I am just a memory Who are you I can’t remember Do I see me Unravelled in the knot of life Are you a mirror or forgotten wife I think I am a
Transitions By Tom Nussbaum “Why don’t I like to play with dolls, Jeremy?” nine-year-old Michelle Klein asked the lanky teenager sitting on the window seat in her bedroom as she pushed a red toy race car across the desk sitting next to the window. “I don’t know, Michelle,” Jeremy, the Klein’s neighbor, answered. “But
A Teddy Bear Called Tedrina (By An Anonymous Contributor) A Christmas Story When my son Justin was born, he was given a Teddy bear. Just a normal old bear, in no way exceptional except to him. Most children have an “attachment object” preferred to all others and Tedrina was Justin’s. He played, ate and
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Hope Springs Eternal By Henri Loridanshenri.loridans@gmail.com Donald Trump is a true believer that all is fair in love and war, and that political campaigning is war. In his first venture into politics he defeated the cream of the crop of Republican stalwarts. His antics, statements and promises amazed not only Americans, but the entire
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Dreams By Margaret Van Every Claire La Flamme wasn’t the least flamboyant. From Montreal, she was a plain girl who drifted into the art school in our Mexican village, perhaps in search of finding a few artsy friends as she was passing through. We art students were a cliquish sort disinclined to pay any
