November 1, 2014
There is no oppression. Just lean�in to the corporate machine, become�part of its vast personhood. You too�every one of you can be a millionaire�if you just try harder, gaze upward…. READ MORE
January 1, 2014
� The hatred of the poor, is it guilt � gone rancid? That the rich have � so much and still conspire to steal � a baby’s medicine, a woman’s… READ MORE
May 1, 2013
� How gorgeous is the snow and deadly.�The roads are gone under its drifts.�Hundreds of thousands without power�in a frozen world where the wind�howls like a pack of coywolves. �… READ MORE
March 1, 2013
How often we navigate by what is no�longer there. Turn right where the post�office used to be. She lives in a condo�above where the bakery blew sweet�yeasty smells into the… READ MORE
September 1, 2012
Unemployed: soon invisible,�after a while, unemployable,�unwanted, with your future�eroding along with confidence,�sense of self, the family�cracking along old fault lines.�And what do you do? Age. � Out of work: out… READ MORE
May 1, 2012
The poor are no longer with us � � No one’s poor any longer. Listen�to politicians. They mourn the middle�class which is shrinking as we watch�in the mirror. The poor… READ MORE
April 1, 2011
On March 25, 1911, a fire spread through the seventh, eighth, and ninth floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The mostly immigrant workers, young… READ MORE
September 1, 2010
I remember Detroit when it hummed with factories like an army of bees all day, all night. I remember downtown when it felt too fancy for us, Hudsons with window… READ MORE
May 1, 2010
A light has gone out and we see and understand far lessof who and what we are of the task only begun in the space your life carved out for… READ MORE
May 1, 2009
A young woman said to me you guys in the sixties were so naïve. How could you ever believe there would be a revolution? � Oh, child of the oughts,… READ MORE