Growing up in the Midwest, at an early age I began writing poems and stories, and plays, which I cajoled my sisters to act in. In the 1980’s and 90’s I published several pieces, mostly travel articles, but also a few poems and book reviews, in publications such as, The Advocate, LA Weekly, In Style, [...]

His laughter, so fraught with memory, wrapped around me
and made flight impossible. Cuba, part temptress and part prankster, was
working its dark magic again.