The Goal(s) of Gifts (Given)
In the fall I planned which gifts I would give. I assessed what my garden provided in abundance and found the intersection with which...
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...
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...
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...
A Good Problem to Have
I accompanied a group of students to a college campus last weekend. We were lucky to have a representative from a student club with our...
Taking a Stand
My current gym contract is for three times a week. That works well for me, because it gives me more control than I had at my previous...
Left. Right? (Of) Way
I traveled to teach.* I wanted to go home. I didn't want to travel, But someone said what I would say was worth saying. I elected to...
Subtitled
My sister-in-law left me a voice message in What’s App. “Would you mind reading subtitles in English? Reading them while we watched a-”...
Spirit(s)
Every now and then I pause and search for special dates. You could say, I do this to see if the spirit moves me. . . I’m searching, in...