Category Archives: Explorations

No one dies in the spring, with or without the rain. That’s what I think when I come onto our porch and notice the puddles of plum blossoms, white, faint pink petals nestled into the corners of the stairs. Like … 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →