Author Archives: Cara

I can remember moving to the Jackson, MS, area as I dated and then less than a year later, married, Curtis. The trees are so gorgeous, so tall. And I marveled. I also began to suffer with the chains of Christianity, and I was horrified as I found a job with State Farm Insurance. MenContinue reading “Culture Shock”

The greatest sin of the republican party is the sin of stubborn control. They are now at this time, one hundred percent of the time, saying the way of the past is better than the future without some things. And the problem with that narrative is they are trying to keep the King of kingsContinue reading “The Greatest SIN of the Republican Party”

In the Christian World and others like it, I as a grown woman can have no male friends particularly if one or the other, or both, are married. I suppose if I went to a church which embraced homosexuality, it would be a little mixed. But all that I lived through, it was very strict,Continue reading “I am a Dependent, and always have been”

My reading of the poem This poem is disturbing, actually. I have noticed in male poets the tendency to be cyclically morose. TS Eliot does not write most of his poetry that way; however, this piece is one such. And it is why in my own hand I wrote, I remember. I am choosing notContinue reading “A Song for Simeon by TS Eliot”