Essays & Poems

Transition through the Liminal Space (This article appeared Friday, May 5, 2023 in the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung) Change cannot be avoided. If we decide to ignore it, no matter. Transitions [...]

What If We gathered The way we did as children Knowing that love and protection Was always there What if we gathered In Love and abandonment Remembering that dreams of the future Were ours to [...]

What Did I Do? As people of color, we have come to ask that question with a sincerity that shows the depth of our heartbreak. The final word that was missing in that question, that Tyre Nichols [...]

Commentary: Where there is democracy, dignity is nourished Dennis Patrick Slattery, For the Express-News Jan. 5, 2023 A single word can spawn a host of thoughts, images and associations. As 2023 [...]

Reflections on ‘Portals to the Imaginal’ Dear Pacifica Friends, I was able to attend the in-person reopening of Pacifica’s Ladera campus. The conference, Portals to the [...]

With Sorrow We Dissent “With sorrow […] we dissent,” closes the final paragraph of the official response to the decision handed down yesterday by the Supreme Court of the United States. These [...]

Attempted scam is a lesson on fraud My goal was simple: to cancel a rental car in another city because I no longer needed it. When I called the number that I assumed would connect me with those [...]