What Crosses My Mind

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  • When We Find We Are The Same

    Rules need not be broken to identify our true selves we haven’t the demand to walk upstream, to push the elements aside for personal gain, in essence, it is true that we all do find the similar grounds for which our bodies strike the earth as feeling landed, secure, understanding of time.   Oh, we…

  • My America (written for contest)

    To understand, My America, I wanted to embody a lifetime of experience that could speak directly to my concept of living as a white man in the Midwest. I was fortunate to grow up with conscientious siblings all of whom were driven by values instilled by parents just trying to keep up with the norms…

  • Capital Punishment

    Wait … I’m not ready he’s not ready she’s not ready not worthy not right not exactly operating on all cylinders When we decide upon the finality of death, are we I mean is it our goal would we, could we, do we really want to have that burden in our mind? Every day, we…

  • Lee Daniels’ The Butler – A Review

    Lee Daniels’ The Butler – A Review I threw on a little Billie Holiday in the background because I hoped it might be an appropriate mood setter for writing a review of Lee Daniels’ The Butler. You see, I’m a white guy talking about something very personal towards a black audience, an African-American topic if…

  • Trayvon Martin

    A boy died. A segment of our society painted him to be a golden boy wearing a hood. We don’t know. I certainly don’t know. From what I first read, it seemed that George Zimmerman was his own wannabe crusader that wanted to save the world from society’s ‘cancers.’ In this scenario, it played out…