Not an egg fertilizing mammal. Not a baby producing machine. Not a wife, girlfriend or sweetheart. Not a weaker section of the society. Breaking the bends, Smashing the norms, Dashing the walls, Burning the shackles, Flying the dreams, Roaring with thunder, Emerges a Woman. FOR HER....BY HER....TO HER!
I write about New York - and everywhere else. This is a selection of what I call my "little bus stories." I write on the New York City Mass Transit Authority - also known as the MTA, also known as the bus and the subway. My first collection of stories is available at the NY Transit Museum Store, and online at Amazon...
This is small group of poems and memories of and about life in the military. I chose the U.S.S.Midway to grace the cover of this selection. She was an integral weapon of war. She was also my home for two years. She is now a museum open to the public. Remember to thank our active duty military personnel and veterans i...
Children shouldn't have to play with IV lines attached to the back of their hands. But they do. Cancer made it so. Here are some stories of some of those brave kids I have met in some of those playrooms. To be honest I never wanted to able to tell these stories. I didn't want to have a reason to go into those rooms...
TB&ME is a collaborative blogging project by patients being treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in locations all around the world by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). They are writing about their experiences of living with MDR-TB and the treatment that they receive. This treatme...
More than 60 million people are currently fleeing conflict or persecution around the world. Due to their race, religion or nationality, these people's homes are no longer safe places to live and their governments no longer provide them with protection. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works arou...