A NURSERY OF VIOLENCE?
The chicken bobbed around, darting now here, now there. Randomly. There was no head. I couldn’t help noticing. I was 5 years old. The neighbor boy was showing me how to cut chickens’ heads off with an axe. Then he said that the horn on my Lionel electric train sounded like pigs being electrocuted. These images have never left my mind. They never will. It was rumored there was a lot of domestic violence at his house. Continue reading A Nursery of Violence by Merton Shill
Click Here To Read: Don’t Blame Autism for Newtown By Pricilla Gilman in The New York Times on December 17, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The Newtown Shootings – The View from 300.01 By David L. Levine on the Scientific American blogs website on December 20, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The Other Kindertransport: As Nazis Closed In, 150 Teens Improbably Found Freedom By Sarah Wildman in The Jewish Daily website on December 19, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The Anxiety of the Long-Distance Meditator By Jeff Warren in The New York Times on December 17, 2012.
Pops from big kid roman candles cut across the time zones
narratives of personal surface burn and itchy imbedded metal scraps
sparklers tested by tiny fingers consequences of curiosity about what happens
when something gets too close or we…
get too close to something Continue reading Poem by Megan Baer McKamy – social worker from Topeka Kansas
Click Here to Read: Thinking the Unthinkable an article that originally appeared in the Blue Review by Liza Long reprinted on The Anarchist Soccer Mom website with Comments by Others.
Click Here to Read: A Joint Statement from Sarah and Liza with Comments by Others on The Anarchist Soccer Mom website.
Click Here to Read: Another Reprinting of the Liza Long article on the in Huffington Post with Comments from a broad spectrum of readers.
Methodical Massacre: Horror And Heroics: December 15, 2012|By EDMUND H. MAHONY and DAVE ALTIMARI, emahony@courant.com, The Hartford Courant
Adam Lanza blasted his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He fired a half-dozen thunderous rounds from a semiautomatic rifle to open a hole big enough to step through in one of the school’s glass doors. Continue reading Methodical Massacre: Horror And Heroics
