“I don’t understand why, why they meekly went to their deaths!” These words surfaced in my memory for the first time recently, five years […]
Month: August 2024
Danielle Fisher – “Tragedy”
Tragedy And the thing they don’t tell you about a national tragedy is that the personal tragedies don’t cease her son’s untimely passing, […]
Catherine Gonick – ‘The News I Prayed Not to Hear’
On this Tisha B’Av, I thought of my wife-in-law in Israel. My husband and his ex are both Americans, working together online to secure […]
Talya Jankovits – Two Poems
Lemon Trees Don’t Grow in Poland lemon trees don’t grow in Poland – she tells me,but they do grow outside her den window. Great bursts […]
Lois Villemaire – Two Poems
My Great Grandmother Fannie Living with an aunt, her parents dead, she departs from a dot on the map, the village of Horby […]