What We Talk About When We Watch The Handmaid’s Tale
originally published in Feminine Collective What if my dystopia is your heaven, my utopia your hell? We’re not on the same page, darling May I still call you that? You said it could never happen here Isn’t that what the Germans said of Hitler? Where did they think his anti-Semitic rants would lead? Darling, […]
Why We Need Perry Mason Now More Than Ever
originally published in Medium|culture I used to watch Perry Mason on television a lot when I was a kid. I loved the edgy black-and-white film; the unlikely plots; the relentless drive for truth. Not to mention the cars. What ten year-old girl immersed in rerun after rerun doesn’t develop a passion for a ’57 […]
You Made The World
originally published in Feminine Collective Agony—a gone knee Can’t bend—no way to mend This isn’t about aging—maybe about raging What stops the crazy rhyme-time? Unplug the clock Blind its ruby face Tear your eyes out if you must Choke on dust There I go again, too easy This lilting rhythm and sound Trapped by […]
Preview of WOMEN WITHIN, releasing in September, 2017
Women Within is a novel in three parts, each devoted to one main character. Part One presents Constance Maynard, currently an elderly resident at the Lindell Retirement home in Upstate New York. She is cared for by Eunice and Sam (short for Samantha). Part Two tells Eunice’s story; Part Three tells Sam’s. Here is a […]
Maybe a Feminist After All
I’m not a political person. That doesn’t mean I have no interest in politics, just that I don’t see the world purely in political terms. Some do. A writer whose name I can’t recall said that all writing, one way or another, is political writing. I never believed that, and still don’t. I’m also not […]