Listen & Be Heard

If you’re asking yourself ‘what do i have to offer?’ then you’re asking the right question. If you’re asking someone else what you have to offer then you’re in trouble. Here’s what Listen & Be Heard has to offer: an opportunity for a community to recreate itself on its own terms. Change is definitely on… Read more

At the beginning of May, the print version of Listen & Be Heard Weekly made the move to becoming Listen & Be Heard Monthly. Listenandbeheard.net remains a weekly. The daily feature of the Poem of the Day, which you can find Monday through Friday at listenandbeheard.net/poem.htm, pays homage to our roots in poetry and spoken… Read more

in the last few weeks and months we have been making a transition from being a weekly newspaper with a print focus and fledgling website, to a weekly website with a monthly print companion publication. in the process, i as the editor (and co-publisher with my husband tony mims), of both forms of the publication,… Read more

Society has a strange existence of its own that extends beyond any human life-span. Each of us is inextricably bound to the place and time in which we?re born. First we must learn about the infrastructure of our daily lives. We must learn the rules within the context of survival. We find out what the… Read more

If I’m not careful it is easy for me to become overwhelmed by the mediocrity that seems to keep us all in constant danger of succumbing to it’s hypnotic siren song. Yeah it’s easy to switch on my television and flop down on my couch, getting up to visit the refrigerator every time one of… Read more