On Mother’s Day, made a list of some things moms I know went through in the year of Covid.  So, doing the same for the guys here on...

Some things Mom’s I know have gone through in this covid year: Masked up every day all day at work. Worked doubles for weeks treating...

A brilliant Fall afternoon in Charlottesville, the booms of a cannon marking each touchdown scored at the football stadium nearby. ...

Yes, of course, it’s hokey and old-fashioned to say this, but Ernest Hemingway changed my life. And I know exactly when it started....

One year ago, they killed her. Here on this sorrowful anniversary is the foreword to my manuscript of poems in her honor, Breonna: Poems...

Why is it that February, our shortest month, always seems the longest? And this year, as we round toward the first anniversary of the...

A year ago, our grandmother Angelina (Ann) Segno, then age 98, began to have difficulty walking. For several years, she had lived in a...

In 2020, everyone’s concerns have converged, it seems (if our opinions haven’t). My favorite books helped explain what was happening,...

My friend and author Rosemary Rawlins asked me to share an anecdote or two for her book club, which I’ll be joining in December for a...

Exhaustion seems to be the order of the day.  The year has taxed everyone. Most of us have behaved admirably, but we’re tired.  And there...

Such good fortune to have woods behind our house – the tall oaks and poplars and gum trees, the skinny pines — that the rain plays like...

It’s been nearly 50 years now, but August 10 still marks a day of terror for me. As it may yet for all Virginia high school football...

In this morning’s New York Times a summary of the mistakes we’ve made here in the U.S. in coping with the coronavirus, which has put the...

When I wrote this poem last fall, using the 5-7-5 syllable haiku formula, I really didn’t have an answer to the question it poses. But...

On this July 4th, Richmond, VA, my home and birthplace, is a changed city. Restaurants, gyms, and barbershops shuttered for months...

I’ve been receiving frankly terrifying letters from friends in prison about the malignant neglect that has been causing exploding numbers...

Today is my proudest as a native Virginian, thanks to the announcement by Governor Northam (another born and raised Virginia boy)...

I’m helping a friend write his memoir. In doing so, we’ve uncovered themes that have colored his life and that have me thinking about...

Compiling a list of books on punk naturally led me here. You can stream a lot of these in our confinement. Play loud. Documentaries:...

This is the letter I sent to Virginia’s governor this morning, as we cross the line of 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 in America. Let’s...