Monthly Archives: February 2020

It was one of those three-day weekend kind of Mondays. A Monday dressed up as a Sunday. I read quietly in the backyard, 2pm sun just so, moving its angle a few minutes away from a solstice and a few … Continue reading →

What is our life between a birth and a death A broken road and a marriage Between the hours of 9-5 and 5-9 A diagnosis and an all-clear A west coast and a Midwest Two oceans Rural and urban 143rd … Continue reading →

Every culture I’ve passed through has an opinion, a hope, a shared understanding about fertility. The phallus-laden Lama Drukpa Kunley temple in Bhutan, the healing hut on the Masaii Mara in Kenya, the beachside tree in the Seychelles whose fruit … Continue reading →

I wonder if their stories were as grand as my memory of them. The South Bend gloom, the perma cloud we called it. We made jokes – as we trudged across campus, interview notes tucked safely in our backpacks, sleet … Continue reading →