“I feel a sickness deep in my stomach every time the building’s alarm goes off,” confesses rookie jail guard Nicholas Billings. “It’s always the same feeling. I don’t care what anyone says, how tough they think they are. No matter how strong or well trained; deep down, jagged butterflies begin to swirl around your insides […]
The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens
May Stevens was born in 1924 and, at the age of 94, lives in New Mexico. She has been, for most of her life, an artist. For the last seven decades, she’s been a political artist. I don’t know if she still creates art for public viewing. I hope so but that may be an […]
Remembering David McReynolds
A friend who spent many years in the Catholic Worker-inspired anti-war movement sent me an email about the death of David McReynolds and a link to a collection of photos taken by McReynolds throughout his adult life. One set of photos is from Ocean Park, California in 1947. The photos are accompanied by what I […]
Marx and Engels on Civil War: New Collection
Review by Marcelo Badaró Mattos The Civil War in the United States, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Edited by Andrew Zimmerman. New York: International Publishers, 2016. Paper, $14.00. Pp. 256. This book is the second American edition, largely modified, of a collection of Marx’s and Engels’ writings on the Civil War. The first edition, […]
Incident at Waffle House
On July 4th, I went to a local Waffle House with a Black friend. Our usual Waffle House that we hit up on University Drive was packed solid so we drove to one in Five Points, a mostly white area of east Huntsville. When we entered, there was only one booth that looked open so we […]
Always Open
On our way home from visiting my mother in Ocala, Florida we took a detour to visit a salvage store in Brooksville, Florida. It was the perfect thing to do on a sad, drizzly Sunday, the last time we’d see family for a while, an especially bittersweet departure as I have cancer. My husband and […]