Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: May 9 to May 15
All the Latest from Torsade! Well, dear Readers, this, in my outside-of-writing life, was Planting Out week, an event known to gardeners, where all our seedlings we’ve been hauling into the garage—or greenhouse, if you’re lucky enough to have one—and hauling […]
My Blog Week: May 2 to May 8
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Charmless Offensive First, a theory of mine. That the deep GOP cabal wants to burn Trump out as an asset. If they didn’t prefer him […]
My Blog Week: April 25 to May 1
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Ain’t That Dandy? One of the little freaks of the week was the dandelion moment between the president and his wife—where on the way to […]
My Blog Week: April 18 to April 24
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Comfort and Convenience We don’t see how easily we internalize the idea that inequality can be deserved. Let’s imagine a totalitarian trend in our politics…not […]
My Blog Week: April 11 to April 17
All the Latest from Torsade! Apologies, readers. I did well this week schedule-cramming, but things still popped out at the edges, and I didn’t end up with time to write my WOW piece. I did get some poetry done and new entries for […]
My Blog Week: April 4 to April 10
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Comfort and Convenience When we think about Amazon, we should think about retailing itself, what Amazon does and what it doesn’t do. Since the 21st […]
My Blog Week: March 28 to April 3
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Drinking Water Thinking, about a year ago, of New Year’s resolutions, and thinking of the environment, I was ready to stop buying bottled water. To […]
My Blog Week: March 21 to March 27
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Shallow Season We are approaching the first of April, which where I live is forecast to be a weirdly cold day. Maybe nature’s just […]
My Blog Week: March 14 to March 20
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week With a Capital T If you’re familiar with The Music Man, you understand something about our current dilemma. In this story, a swindler arrives […]
My Blog Week: March 7 to March 13
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Cancel Clutter There are two problems with political correctness…a term transitioning to being called wokeness (a phrase that once addressed awareness of others’ experiences, now […]