My publication rate doubled today 🙂  Just found out that my poem, Charly’s Shoes, Returning, will appear in the Winter 2012 Little Patuxent Review: Social Justice issue.  The Little Patuxent Review, based in Howard County, Maryland, and covering the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond, covers a different theme in each issue.  When I heard the winter focus, I smiled.

Social, political, and policy issues can be very complex.  In a world that often frames things as either conservative or liberal, religious or secular, black or white, it’s easy to offer only two choices.  Looking at all the nuances, the exceptions, the complexity, is harder.  It takes more work. My links page shows just a few ways we can try to be informed. In polarizing debates, the humans get lost, sometimes.

I don’t write much about policy; I write about people. In this case, a boy traveling alone in the Sonoran desert. Thanks, LPR, for selecting Charly’s story.