Potatoes and Crime in Oakland
Recovering from an end-of-year bout of Covid, a baked potato was the only thing I could stomach. New Years and my birthday had come and… Read More »Potatoes and Crime in Oakland
Recovering from an end-of-year bout of Covid, a baked potato was the only thing I could stomach. New Years and my birthday had come and… Read More »Potatoes and Crime in Oakland
Iceland territory where everything is frozen in flows across the mountaintops. Sitting on a stack of encyclopedias and gazing at my pocket watch, not caring… Read More »Parasailing Above Cliffs of Snow
Menachem Begin was Dodo’s first cousin. Dodo lived on the ground floor and she and my mother were best friends. Sometimes I babysat her dog… Read More »New Beginning in Israel
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I might have talked about chicken bones at my first state of the city address and riled the whole city. But I’m not a Donald… Read More »Chicken Bones
We live in a bafflement of words like smoke from a fire making eyes tear and throats scratchy only we don’t realize we are being talked to… Read More »Natural Selection
I talk to my plants. I also talk to my cats while scratching their ears and discussing the weather or what’s for dinner. But plant-to-person… Read More »Talking Spider Plant Blues
Norma was my other friend who became my best friend. We met on the first day of second grade. I was nervous, sitting at my… Read More »A Pencil Forms a Friendship
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During my father’s stay in the hospital, my mother was diagnosed with an advanced cancer. A year after his death, my sister called from Florida,… Read More »Letter to My Mother