Two weeks ago, Donald Trump hosted a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago for the Alaska Senate candidate challenging Lisa Murkowski — Kelly Tshibaka. Over eighty Trump fans flew in from Alaska including Kelly Tshibaka’s husband, my former high school friend, Niki Tshibaka. Emphasis on the word former. Trump even had a private…

Kelly Tshibaka can’t get away from that one time at fish camp. I didn’t plan to write a follow-up article about Kelly Tshibaka’s campaign to unseat Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski. I am an acupuncturist in New Hampshire. I should be writing about acupuncture’s role in public health. Yet I can’t…

Originally posted to the Prick, Prod, Provoke Blog on the People’s Organization of Community Acupuncture (POCA) website My fellow Acu-punks, In July, I attended a Zoom meeting held by our Federal Trade Commissioners. I had one minute to tell them why I wanted them to investigate the National Certification Commission…

Vasco Nunes had a prolific film career until his life was cut short in a motor vehicle accident in 2016. He was my bully in high school. Although he was a senior and I was a freshman, he had plenty of opportunities to harass and torment me during rehearsals of…

I live in New Hampshire. It doesn’t make sense for me to pay close attention to a Senate race in one of the farthest states from where I live, but when a good friend from high school told me about what’s heating up in Alaska I had to check it…

A follow up on my Open Letter to the creators of POSE Last year the Coronavirus pandemic kept me and other “non-essential” workers at home. I kept myself busy. I watched POSE seasons One and Two on Netflix. I read The Great Believers by Rebeca Makkai, a novel centered in…

A popular show set in New York during the height of the AIDS epidemic should include acupuncture in order to reflect the time. Dear POSE creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Steven Canals, I have an unusual request, I know. Would you consider writing at least one scene that includes acupuncture…

What are your favorite sources for writing prompts? You mentioned websites and ebooks. Anything specific?

A short story about how holistic living isn’t always rainbows and sunshine. Jack was a terrible roommate. But, I wasn’t moving in with Jack. Faith had extra room for rent and I liked her. My first semester of acupuncture school started in a week and I needed a place to…