11 Stay-At-Home Haikus

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month?  It’s also English Language month, the Month of Hope, Cannabis Awareness Month, Stress Awareness Month, and National Fresh Celery Month!  In honor of April, I have decided to try my hand at writing poetry! I started with haikus because they’re short and they don’t have to…

Coronavirus, the Spanish Flu, and Pandemic Xenophobia

Pandemics have never been named for entire countries, or blamed on entire ethnicities, with benign or scientifically accurate intentions. This has only ever been done out of prejudice and nativism, with the intent to use existing public fear and bigotry to discriminate against marginalized groups of human beings.