Author, Teacher, Screenwriter, Poet
Dear Taliban, If your fear of women and their freedom compels you to kill, kill me. I’m a sixty- year-old American woman. I probably consume too much of the world’s resources, and I’ve had a
[Below is a copy of the foreword to X&O: Short Works by me, Kate Horsley] This collection of short works comes from and is about vastly different stages in my personal and creative life. “Rat”
Remember Blanche Dubois in the play “Streetcar Named Desire”? Okay – maybe you don’t. Anyway, she says at some point, in her southern drawl, “I must rely on the kindness of strangers” – as though
Morally weak heterosexual men have two strategies for getting laid: rape and religion. Rapists are straight-forward worthless criminals. Men who use religion to justify their control of women are delusional lunatics and/or diabolical bullshitters
About eight years ago in November, a man I valued very much as a friend and colleague stepped outside his car and shot himself on the asphalt of an emergency room parking lot. His
All kinds of crap happens. To all of us. I can’t think of an extended period of time in my life when crap didn’t happen. In the past, when I wasn’t meditating and crap happened,