Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
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Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
I said in my last post, that this is not the time for satire. But if you can’t laugh now, how can you cope? I used the image above, that of a window, to illustrate my point. The broken window above no longer functions as a window. So if I described it as …
{In this poem, I draw on the tragedy of the Fall 2020 wildfires out West for my metaphor. Which, as it happens, applies just as well to someone in the East. Part of the series Sixty Days, leading up to the US Presidential election. Thanks for stopping by to read!} Shouting “Fire!” …
{It is now Sixty Days before our presidential election, and I thought I might take a trip down memory lane in the next few weeks, with poems, stories and blogposts I have written during the Trump Presidency. Most of them were influenced by current events at the time, and so will serve as a reminder …
{This is the first post in my series Sixty Days. It is now sixty days before our presidential election, and I thought I might take a trip down memory lane in the next few weeks, with poems, stories and blogposts I have written during the Trump Presidency. Most of them were influenced by current …
The events of this past week in Minneapolis, where I spent part of my childhood, have been very upsetting and disturbing to me. First, the horrible acts in the video we all saw, from many angles: In the course of an arrest for a petty crime, a white policeman, aided by his fellow officers, …
In my busy life, with tasks never-ending, I have but a short supply of energy and a very small staff (namely me!) to do it all. Thinking about this, in the context of these hectic times, I immediately thought of the story of Joseph in Egypt, where he rises to become the Pharaoh’s right-hand …
Here’s a rather political poem for a rather political holiday season. Pardon me, as I recount (and re-gift) some of the more unwelcome gifts our country has received in 2019, courtesy of one particular Scrooge, whose favorite color appears to be a very Christmas-y green. Please try to enjoy the rest of this crazy year. …
{The first line of this poem came from former President Obama’s remarks on the tragic shootings that afflicted El Paso Texas and Dayton Ohio this week. I thought the expression “people of goodwill” sounded outdated and quaint enough to be poetic, and the rest flowed from it. This is my response to the stalling that …
{This post was originally published around Memorial Day, 2017, as a response to the WordPress.com prompt “Detonate”. I have included this is my series SIxty Days because it touches upon our relationship to the outside world, our sense of ourselves as heroes, and our terror of those who might seek to harm us. …
