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Dear Bakersfield, Don’t be a Coeur d’Alene, revving up your truck engines and hurling racial epithets. Don’t terrorize young athletes reveling in their dream. Yes, I know you are a much larger city in a progressive state, but what a state we’ll be in if the racist legacy of Oildale continues, if a BC professor […] The post LETTER TO MY HOMETOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF MARCH MADNESS BY ANNIS CASSELLS first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post LETTER TO MY HOMETOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF MARCH MADNESS BY ANNIS CASSELLS appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

In the back seat of the old green Dodge, still wearing our pajamas, we laugh and count too loud, try to drown each other out when the road meanders between two cow-filled fields. Twelve! My brother shouts. A moment later, I counter with Fifteen! Dad calls this game “Cow Poker”. The rural route to our […] The post COUNTING COWS BY ANNIS CASSELLS first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post COUNTING COWS BY ANNIS CASSELLS appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

Some days it looks like a dog others, it’s a lioness. The weighty long-tailed bronze sculpture standing on its four feet, anchored by a six-inch tail that narrows, tapers to a point How many years did I watch my mother sit at our yellow Formica kitchen table, slit open the telephone bill, Publishers’ Warehouse ads, […] The post MAMA’S LETTER OPENER BY ANNIS CASSELLS first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post MAMA’S LETTER OPENER BY ANNIS CASSELLS appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

Not on a lake near a pavilion, its summer awning tucked away, snow-dusted tables and curve-backed wicker chairs stalwart, braving the elements. Not on a lake laid out like an icy carpet stretched into forever, no opposite side in sight. No fellow skaters in colorful jackets, woolen scarves streaming behind them, shiny blades gleaming amidst […] The post MY BROTHER LEARNED TO SKATE BY ANNIS CASSELLS first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post MY BROTHER LEARNED TO SKATE BY ANNIS CASSELLS appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

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“Here he comes, Ida,” said Hazel, as she expertly cast-on her ball of yarn. Ida looked up from her own knitting and squinted through her glasses down the length of the long sidewalk bordering the park. In the distance she could make out a figure riding a hoverboard, weaving in and out through the crowd […] The post JUST DESSERT BY PRESLEY ACUNA first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post JUST DESSERT BY PRESLEY ACUNA appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

ACLU will stand firm For FOIA (You can’t have TMI About some things) The HOA really ought to respect DIY And the FBI conform to DEI And about DOD and JCS? OMG Another SNAFU FWIW A recent headline in WAPO “BLA is stirring up controversy As it wades into the murky Business of college NIL” […] The post FYI BY JOHN DOUGHERTY first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post FYI BY JOHN DOUGHERTY appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

My father brought a blue wool sweater Back from war, and put it in a drawer, And never took it out. He wouldn’t hear of washing it, And that just served to tip me off To complications, as I suppose there always are. The magnum of champagne, the mighty splurge Of Piper-Heidsieck, marked forty-five Years […] The post PIPER BY JOHN DOUGHERTY first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post PIPER BY JOHN DOUGHERTY appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more