But if Cholo Ramirez was indeed intended to embark on the Ghost Trail of his Indian ancestors, its entrance was not marked by cottonwood trees along a riverbank on a windswept green plain. The Ghost T...
But I was falling prey to that old self-serving notion that well-intended rhetoric can remove a stone bruise from the soul.
Advice might be cheap, but there is nothing facile about the faith of those to whom we give it.
A tanker truck appeared far down the wavy surface of the highway, headlights on, its weight and shimmering cylindrical shape and dedicated purpose so great and unrelenting that it seemed to move and j...
What do you say to people who are doing their best when their best is not enough?
Solipsistic
Politicians were liars who served the interests of corporations, that populists were con artists, and that the poor were kept poor and uneducated as long as possible.
Perdition,
Iniquitous.
From which I had graduated in 1960 with a teacher’s certificate and a degree in English.
For anyone?
Fear is an irrational emotion that floats from object to object like a helium balloon that you touch with your fingertips.
Documented in a security file was of no concern to him. The fact that a man like Joe Tex could have access to it
Degree of civility I normally possess, he said. What’d she say?
Crowd again. I think we blew an opportunity. But maybe
About voices that can cry out for help in our sleep.
You don’t realize the gift you have.
Women are the perfect creation. I don’t care who hears that. Even before I hit puberty, they lived nightly in my dreams, and I have the feeling they’ll live with me in the grave.
Whenever I hear and see a politician or a military leader, a bank of American flags at his back, trying to convince us of the rightness of a policy or a deed that will cause harm to others; when I am...
When you love somebody, you give up making decisions just for yourself.