Celebrating Sue Mingus
Sean MurphySad to hear the news of Sue Mingus’s passing, but am here to celebrate an...
Yes: Close to the Edge at 50
Listening to Yes is like listening to opera: the words are, or may as well...
Barbara Ehrenreich and the Dignity of Labor
It seems specious, even disingenuous, to suggest that a well-known, best-selling author is both underrated...
Sy Johnson: RIP
Let’s face it. There were few human beings who could give Charles Mingus what he...
August 2002 – August 2022: Sanctuary
I visited my mother’s grave the first several years for the same reason I used...
August 2002 – August 2022: Three Poems
The Things Prepping for a Colonoscopy Procedure Prepares You For… The pre-procedure, a to-do list...
August 2002 – August 2022: Gifts & Blessings
i. August 2002 – August 2022 Twenty years. I’m of course of a certain age...
For My Mother on Her Birthday
I’m scared, I said. “It’s okay,” she said. “You know I’ll never leave you, right? I...
Please Talk about Me When I’m Gone
MY MOTHER EVENTUALLY became acquainted with the white-walled world of procedures and all that happens—before,...
Roger Waters: Shining On
There are so many musicians I admire, a smaller circle I adore, a smaller one...