Tag: Friend

Anyone who has seen Disney’s 2014 movie Maleficent will know that iron burns fairies and iron chains can hold a dragon captive. Iron frames were once popular for children’s bedsteads, because it was said that fairies could not approach to snatch or swap the infants who slept up...

There’s that moment — usually innocuous, always awkward — when someone throws a ‘compliment’ my way, thinking they’re in the clear. Something like, “Wow, your English is really good!” Or the classic, “You’re really good at math, huh?”...

This is my friend Petuuche, an Acoma Indian who lives on the Res outside Albuquerque. He and all his fellow Native Americans are suffering tremendously during the pandemic. They have a much more severe lockdown and many more restrictions than even the most severely shut-down areas of the rest of the...

On Sunday a friend rang. Made an arrangement for lunch. She was late, I was hungry so ordered and began. Just before she arrived at the table I saw her inside my mind. We chattered. Walked along a pier. The sun came out and made the ocean blue. The waves made green lines under the pier. People strol...

Thinking back, there were a few times when my best friend(s) were white. I grew up in Minneapolis, whose population was no greater than fifteen percent Black. The block I grew up on had a dozen kids close in age, most of them white. During the summer, I burst out the back door at nine a.m. every ...

I was 38 years old. I had moved back to Ohio from California less than a year before my first symptom. I had just married Tracy in December. The following March I ended up with a sinus infection. Never had one in my life. I couldn’t breath, went to the doctor and he prescribed me antibiotic...