Author Archives: meaghancc

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 →

Many woman grieve the loss of not being able to carry a baby. I feel guilty because I never wanted to carry a baby. And now, I’m learning, I cannot carry a baby. She told me to try and reframe … Continue reading →

By the end of my grandpa Pop’s life, we thought we had pretty much cleaned out his and GG’s house. Their third house, the first two having burnt down. Somehow they were able to salvage or save a few photo … Continue reading →

Stockholm 2017. We were bopping around in the midnight sunshine, drinking up the fresh air and blonde people like we had one life to live. The 14 islands around Stockholm, that spanning archipelago, providing postcard scenes that matched our mood. … Continue reading →

8th grade, I had just migrated the 10 blocks to the public school from a parochial school. I went from a class of 7 to 70. My parents were afraid I wouldn’t know how to do algebra and make the … Continue reading →

October 6 in Illinois, I had driven to the cemetery for GG’s birthday. She died the same month she was born. It’s a small-town cemetery, maybe a thousand people are buried there. GG is next to my grandpa Pop, and … Continue reading →

It was Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 830am. A 20 minute walk, often in the South Bend gray. The permacloud we called it. If I was late, most of the time, I slinked in, up the left aisle to find a … Continue reading →

The earth was something like a billion years old, stardust from the big bang blending together in of the right elements that give us life. Mohammed was long gone, the Buddha too, and Jesus at least 2000 years, conquests and … Continue reading →