Carole J. Garrison

When Pro-Life Becomes Anti-Life

Buddhists have a story of four friends who worked together to accomplish good. We need to do that as well.

HEAT, CHIGGERS, AND MOSQUITOES

“Summertime and the livin’ is easy; fish are jumping and the cotton is high.”

Trying to Make Sense out of America: Killing Babies/Punishing the Sex Act/Gun Fetishes

We need to learn some lessons if we are to survive. Sleep peacefully, live with purpose, and be kind

Burning Books: The Strategy of Weak Minds to Control Ideas

To add an exclamation point to the environment that exists in tandom with book burning: 11 people have been killed and 67 injured in mass shootings in the week since the children’s deaths in Uvalde.

The Tooth Fairy and Other Money-Making Schemes

Sal Lee has grown up and is studying to be a dentist. Maybe he has just found another way to make money from teeth other than the tooth fairy.

Outside the Fence

The history of the people who lived in the slave house and the “colored” soldiers who fought in our wars is our collective history, and we need to reclaim it, know it, own it, and work together for a better shared future.

Mask-less America

In my mind’s eye, I imagine an airport terminal full of ostriches clucking and flapping their long necks aimlessly. Or perhaps they’re looking for the sand

Lessons Learned on the Jungle Trail

There was no relief, no euphoria—only dull shock. I fell asleep. When I awoke fifteen minutes later, or maybe it was an hour, I was disoriented. When I tried to stand, my legs cramped from my hips to my toes. I was dehydrated.

Thanks Thom Thom (Means Big Big in Khmer)

enough joy and love to see me through my most recent loss, my missing my own mother as well as those women who no longer are present in life but live large in my heart and memories: Marilyn, Faye, Sr. Libby, and now Carole. Happy Mother’s Day.