10 Habits for Falling More Deeply in Love with Your Humans using Zoom

So many articles are circulating right now about how exhausted and drained people feel after Zoom meetings. I get that. Back in my corporate and academic days, that used to happen to me during Skype meetings and conference calls all the time. I’d often sign off...

Refugees

Since the inauguration two weeks ago, I’ve been having nightmares. I was too freaked out to share them, until I read Sherman Alexie’s new poem Autopsy about his dream that his passport was bleeding. Thank you, master poet. For sharing your pain. I woke up...

How the Land of Don’t Belong Changed Its Name

There once was a land called Don’t Belong in which the people panicked and began believing that it was important to create a list of all those who didn’t belong. At first The List seemed small and harmless enough, so people didn’t think too much of it: foreigners...

Fear asks: why create poetry

Fear asks: why create poetry when there’s no apparent market for it? In response I craft an ocean of poems dive deeper into our quality and quantity our silliness and seriousness our purposeful purposelessness our playful connection and disconnection...

New Normal

You call from the Emergency room at 5:26 a.m. assure me that everything is fine you just woke up out of breath at 4 a.m. heart palpitating in pain. Being just 6 blocks from the hospital you drove yourself there just to be safe but everything is fine. Everything is not...