Letters to the Moon....

"Complete"-written May 2026 I recently set upon a quest to obtain a copy of my birth record.  I received the document, which contained the name of my biological mother, as well as her age when she gave birth to me. Upon receiving this knowledge, I have to confess, curiosity got the better of me. My library provides free access to Ancestry, an online genealogy database. One day, I went to the Ancestry website within the library and searched the name I was given at birth. There were no results. I then had the thought to enter the name of my biological mother. I then clicked “death records”, merely on a whim. There was one result in the database.  I didn’t click on the result; instead I went to my computer search engine to search for an obituary. I typed in my biological mother’s name, plus “obituary”, and hit enter. Her obituary popped up immediately. It took all of five minutes to do both searches. Like any well written obituary, the obit of my biological mother read as a snap...

"What Now?"-written April, May, June 2026 Trigger warning: Epstein Files, sexual assault, sexual misconduct PART ONE I have something weighing in my mind. This may not make sense to anyone but me. However, it’s weighing on my heart. I have to write about it. I have to process it, express it, expel it from my being. I’ve been following the story of the Epstein Files for some time now. It’s not a story that I sought out; yet I became interested in the topic the more it was a persistent presence in the news cycle.  I must be clear: I’m not writing about the Epstein Files, his crimes or those of his accomplices. Instead, this writing concerns someone mentioned in the Epstein Files: magician David Copperfield. I must state that, the fact that a person’s name appears in the  Epstein Files does not mean that they are guilty of any wrongdoing. Copperfield has denied all allegations against him. I have not come to bury Copperfield nor to praise him. My intent in writing on this to...