An Extraordinary Monologue (short nonfiction)

An Extraordinary Monologue     At my bi-weekly visit to the nail salon. I’m seated immediately next to a glum, looking stocky woman almost in a trance. I feel like moving to another chair but don’t. She has brown, short clipped hair with bangs and dusty gray eyes. Her fake oval nails are the longest…

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How Do you Know a True Hero from a Narcissist?

Today on the front lines are health workers in hospitals with the severe cases of the Corona Virus during  the Pandemic risking their own lives to benefit others. We applaud them, revere them, admire them, view them as superior human beings of great importance who are special and unique with unusual empathy for others. They…

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