Personal Essays

Creative non-fiction? memoir? reflection? fictionalized non-fiction? Definitions change: the point here is to convey the truth about living in a world of cataclysmic change.

The Love Letter

Tonight’s tagline is Love is the Answer. But it’s also the question, right? The harder question. The darker half. As in, where is the? and where did ours go? and how deep is it?

She has Killed Her First Deer

"My daughter killed her first deer during the pandemic. She was far far away and we were unable to touch or travel to each other because all over the world we were dying, being mowed down by a virus that held us captive in our own separate times and places..."

The Under cabinet Light

"This CoVid day starts with the typical little indignities. For one thing, it’s day two of overcast in June, which, after brutalizing winters and good for nothing springs, is at least a yellow card for team Chicago..."

Chat GPT: Friend or Foe?

"Picture this:

It’s sometime in the 90s or aughts and I am teaching Senior English, a high school graduation requirement. I have a student; let’s call her Stella. Stella is in doomed-to-fail-and-not-graduate percentage range: 56% or so, and there’s one long overdue essay that, if I accept it, and read it with my eyes closed, she could pass and thus graduate."

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