‘Broken Cord: An Alzheimer’s Anthology’ is Seeking Seed Money

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We are looking to raise seed money for an anthology of writing on Alzheimer’s and dementia. The anthology will be the first project from a new small press. All proceeds will go to research and care groups. Contributors who donate $20 or more will get copies of the anthology and a mention on the acknowledgements page. Writers, we are looking for poems, fiction, and essays on dementia and Alzheimer’s. They can be from any perspective — care-givers, family, the person with dementia.

Donate to the cause here.

When Fascism Comes to America….

The violence this week is both shocking and not shocking. We have a president bringing back the word “Nationalist” and attacking “globalists” as though those words lack the connotations they have taken on over the last century. We have a president who cages children, calls immigrants an infestation, rails that black football players who take a knee “maybe shouldn’t be in the country.”

Trump, of course, is just a symptom of the rot and not the rot itself. He is the raving id of a deranged nation, but his thundering and clowning at the podium, his bullying and name calling have ultimately granted permission for white nationalists to come out of the shadows — to march in Charlottesville and to engage in the kind of violence we witnessed this week.

I can hear the response from my Trump supporting friends — both sides, both sides, both sides. Antifa (essentially a defensive, if wrongheaded, organization) and the GOP softball practice shooter will be raised as the examples. But there is no equivalence here.

Here are two pieces I wrote this week on the violence:

Just Another Day in Post-Racial America

https://medium.com/@newspoet41/just-another-day-in-post-racial-america-8631f60a2e?source=linkShare-be003fc7798b-1540741693

The Sabbath Shooting: Us, Them, and Trump

https://medium.com/@newspoet41/the-sabbath-shooting-us-them-and-president-trump-d02603bf2bb8?source=linkShare-be003fc7798b-1540742411

Email me at grassroots at comcast dot net.