To unplug or not?

Recently on Novelmatters I posted about how much I struggle with the presence and demands of social media. You can read the post here. But I realized that this has been a problem for me for decades — even before the Internet and cellular phones. Here is a poem I...

How a Library Helped Save Me

The Ernie Pyle Memorial Library Albuquerque, New Mexico A recently- discovered portrait of the famous WWII journalist Ernie Pyle is his last:  a photograph taken just moments after his death.  The body that housed all those words lies still and...