Respite
My garden. All weekend at the end of a week of exams, papers, labs, extracurriculars. Parent teacher conferences. My garden, in a community garden, a plot of earth, mine for […]
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Three — Part Un
The names have been changed. There are no names. There are no innocents. It was ten o’clock in the morning on a misty day in early October. There was a […]
Disintegration
A year ago, a then new friend told me, as we began to know each other, that more than anything, I seemed very far from home. It was true. I […]
My Sister, Linda — An Introduction
I both do and do not want to write this post. Characters will meander through this space, and I feel you should be acquainted with some of them. Some will […]
I am not a writer (2008)
I am not a writer. I woke up to a full ashtray on the nightstand and the dogs pouncing on me to go out. Writing takes discipline. There are dishes […]
Three lights into the cave
In Northern California, in the gold country, in a small and charming town called Nevada City, you and I stopped into a bookstore. Many years ago. You would leave from […]
Eva
Gray light streamed from the oversized loft windows, very thin light, everything gray scale in the early, early, far before dawn morning. You took convincing to join me in this […]
