Personal Essay
Personal Essay
Don’t Let Divisiveness Divide Us
By Jill Chapin About the only thing that Florida governor Ron de Santis and I have in common is that ...
Personal Essay
A Very Belated Thankfulness for My Dad
By Jill Chapin My father has been gone for over forty years, but I saw something recently while getting a ...
Personal Essay
Yet Another Manufactured Crisis
By Jill Chapin Do you recall the measles outbreak in 2015? Although there had been no reported deaths in the U.S. ...
Personal Essay
The Trendelenberg Dance*
Chorus: Trendelenberg, trendelenbergI cannot tame my broken hip Verse: Trendelenerg, trendelenbergI lurch, sway, pitch, and nearly tripI once could walk ...
Personal Essay
Grandma’s Three Days in Disneyland
By Karen Fisher Ho COVID, masks, six feet apart, hand sanitizers, vaccination cards and all the other insanity of 2020 ...
Personal Essay
What Has Happened to Us?
By Jill Chapin Fear. Irrational fear. It is more insidious and harder to irradicate than Covid. Why? What has happened to our once ...
Personal Essay
Retirement: Labor Done
By Jerry Robbins At desk I toil till noonday sunPush back my chair my labor doneEase my mindAll thoughts unwindNow ...