America Reflections
“Land of the quick fix. Land of consumption. Land of overwhelming opulence and sadness. Unhappiness masked by plastic smiles.”
“Land of the quick fix. Land of consumption. Land of overwhelming opulence and sadness. Unhappiness masked by plastic smiles.”
“Welcome to Range, Washington, an inland island — a body of land surrounded by rivers on all sides — that’s half Snoquomish Indian Reservation, half small-town America, and 100% unbridled madness.” My 24th article for HuffPost, published in January 2016.
Elation about living semi-permanently somewhere gives way to depressed resignation since that somewhere is Florida.
From Trayvon Martin to Shaima Alawadi, walking while brown is dangerous business.
Why I cut my hair when someone I care about dies and a few other confessions about my life and American Monsters.