Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013
My favorite poem, by my favorite poet, about my favorite topic: Writing… Seamus Heaney’s, “Digging.”
Freedom At Midnight: Love Finally Becomes Law In Minnesota
Weddings often begin after the appointed time, but this one was almost too early: If Margaret Miles and Cathy ten Broeke pledged their troth before the big clock on the Minneapolis City Hall tower struck Midnight, it wouldn’t count. My cellphone said it was...
A hundred years after Wounded Knee
“A people’s dream died at Wounded Knee,” said Black Elk, the famous Lakota medicine man who had witnessed the massacre. “ The nation’s hoop is broken and scattered.”
