Fit to Serve-Half and One Literary
We can try to tell a story. We can think for years a story will never have a listener. It took fifteen years for this essay to be accepted, and it's still relevant, especially to me. --- **Photo credit--Illustration by Nicole Kharjana --- I sat up straight during the taxi ride through Guatemala City. I leaned forward onto my rounded backpack, never against the car window as I had before I had mailed the Peace Corps application in the grocery store parking lot. For months,
Lights in Darkness
Stories never end. Writing stories never ends. I had decided to post an excerpt* from my young adult novel, Bird . This story is a series of lost conversations between sisters, mothers, and countries. By revisiting this story, I was gifted with a conversation of two songs, each with their own version of light in darkness. --- The sun had set. It was night two of Hanukkah and they would light three candles. The conversation always worked three ways. It was raining outs
Find Your Feelings
A work meeting charged me with the idea of ‘gratitude’ but in this context, the idea of gratitude, like the initial conversation about...
