We Stride in MLK’s Footsteps
Imagine marching 275,000 strong
Dr. King’s spirit strides along
with others just like me
smiling free
force of history
we carry hope of victory
We are Texans, pale to black
What values do we prize?
Some take the day off from work.
Some would…
Pop culture in the mid-20th century included Playboy magazine, the one men claimed they bought to read the articles, not to “appreciate” the model spreadeagled in the centerfold. Published by Hugh Hefner, the rag doubled-down on an image of women’s role that the Second Wave of feminism of the 1970s…
I crafted this fiction for a contest in 2018. The assignment was to pick one of a pair of opening and closing lines from a published author, and write a different story in between. Of the four authors available, I picked Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man (1932). …
Prologue
In 1975, as a twenty-something administrative assistant at a research arm of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, I joined three other MIT employees to start a newspaper for women called Sojourner. The chief editor, Allison Platt, received exclusive credit for founding the rag. But guess what? …
My New York-JFK to Boston Logan-BOS airport connecting flight was delayed from its originally scheduled departure at 3:12 PM (arrival 4:40 PM). The plane actually departed at 10:52 PM and arrived at 11:36 PM. This excessive 6:56-hour delay was officially calculated by Dubious Airlines. Their note apologized sincerely for my…
