By Grace KA Brewer: I read an article a while ago calling this generation "Generation Columbine." It made me realize how much I’d grown accustomed to the hea...

By Elizabeth Gracen: Jillian McWhirter has been in my life for a very long time. We are both from the South, and we are both former beauty queens who moved t...

By Jillian McWhirter: Many years ago my sister, Lynn, came to visit my family and me. Lynn had a green thumb, which I did not. Of course, she spotted the emp...

By Kim Carr: Click here to start at the beginning of Kim Carr's "Beyond the Farm Gates" series. By the time my friend Barb and I pulled back into her drivewa...

By Annie Newcomer: Po-Art: Part 1 After meeting Joaquín Zihuatanejo at the Austin International Poetry Festival, I was determined to bring him and his poetry...

By Bill Collins: Sandra P. Sandra was an African-American woman, 32 years old, divorced and mother of a five-year-old little girl. She worked at North Hollyw...

By Hilary Thomas: “Barf Bag Letter” was the title of an email I recently received from Lotte, a former student. I got really excited when I read the subject ...

By Tim Murphy: Happy Pi Day! March 14, or 3.14 for those of you who know the formula. I confess, I do. It’s not something that I am proud of. I didn’t want t...

By Shanaya Daughtrey: It’s March 16th, 2020, as I sit down and write. It seems like every time I look up, I see flashes of the news, and I see long lines wra...

By Elizabeth Gracen: It's been quite a treat to read and edit the work from one of our newest writers, Bill Collins. Bill's work came to us via my great frie...

By Bill Collins: Years ago, I defended a man charged with soliciting prostitution. In this case, an undercover officer posing as a prostitute was standing on...

By Tim Murphy: Valentine’s Day. Love is in the air and on the air, all over the TV. But it’s not a good day for people who have lost their love. I don't wri...

By Bill Collins: Not the Michael Jackson of Hollywood fame, rather the Michael Jackson of La Tuna Canyon fame. The anti-government, anti-immigration, anti-au...

By Tim Murphy: When I was growing up, my whole world revolved around baseball: playing it; collecting baseball cards; listening to the games on the radio; sl...

By Helen Cassidy Page: Chestnuts roasting on an open fire is all good, but not everybody rocks Christmas. At least not 24/7 like the songs and ads for stuffi...

By Tim Murphy: When I was a kid, my Aunt Mary came to stay with us every Christmas. She was widowed twice and never had children. In fact, the issue of her n...

By Bill Collins: Sonny R. was a stunning, drop-dead gorgeous young woman. Not since I represented Wayne Newton's mistress had I had a client with such physic...

By Tim Murphy: When I was growing up, the Vocks lived across the street. Jimmy was my brother’s age, Jannie was my age, and Jeff was my sister’s age. They we...

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By Gillian Kessler: Nikki Giovanni’s “Ego Tripping” is full of fire and grit. This powerful, imaginative work is both hyperbolic and historical, her images r...