Teaching A Letter to My Students (circa 2010) 14 Feb 201826 Jul 2021 I maintained a blog on Open Salon when I was a high school teacher from 2008 to 2011 (when I was laid off). It’s gone now because Salon decided to ax the…
Poetry Prayer: A Poem 9 Feb 201826 Jul 2021 Oh god give me organ that smells like carpet, a thousand cotton-treading feet and eyes that can’t stay open, vestments and breathing and my mother’s hand, mother’s hand, black mother,…
Genealogy The Murder of Joseph H. James: Part II 3 Feb 20188 Jul 2021 When I was in the gym the other morning I saw a commercial for Ancestry.com. Fancy graphics and promises of using your DNA to discover, in the case of the…
Genealogy The Murder of Joseph H. James: Part I 1 Feb 201826 Jul 2021 Well, it's time for another round of weird stories from my father's side of the family. My last name, like LeBron's, is James - though that's where the similarities end…
Genealogy… The Loves (?) of John Kiser 19 Jan 20188 Jul 2021 If you drink, then have a beer before or during this one. I'm going to do my best to focus this story even though, like any story, it involves a…
Genealogy The Tragedy of the Edwards Children 6 Jan 201826 Jul 2021 Since I was ten years old I've been fascinated by genealogy (the study of family history). The early days of the Internet coincided with my adolescence and I spent many…
Photography Earth Has No Sorrow 18 Dec 201710 Sep 2021 She first appeared at the treeline around the cemetery. I heard her before I saw her. She called out in a breathy little "mrrrrawf" as her tail bobbed above her…
An Unhappy Consciousness 