The Great Recession continues to lie across the country like a wet, scratchy blanket full of bedbugs.

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When Saint Nicholas made the journey across the Atlantic to the United States (like so many other immigrants, suffering an Ellis Island name-change, becoming “Santa Claus”), more…

My illustration The Pensive Yeti is the Holiday “gift” on this Christmas morning at the wonderful literary magazine The Rumpus. I hope you enjoy it…and stay to read the amazing work  by some very hard-working writers.