Bare Bones: The Feminist’s ObituaryShe spent her youth in Pasadena. She worked several jobs, including gun-wearing cop in Yosemite National Park. She lived her whole life in…Jun 17Jun 17
The PoolI cannot see what my friend sees or know her thoughts of Yosemite or of me. She lived here in the seventies, a ranger with a gun, while her…Jun 10Jun 10
To the Young Climbers at YosemiteOn a rest near a granite pool, we discover a scene as alive for a group of young climbers as it was for the climbers and their loves in the…Jun 4Jun 4
AI is here to help, and if not AI, some of these very sick, impoverished unemployed folksAnyone been increasingly upset by the tone and content, the voice we might say, of recent commercials playing as part of March Madness? Two…Apr 7Apr 7
Brown WinterIt was a long winter in this bonus time of my dying, no blizzards, almost no snow at all, no tractor with the new snow-blower rumbling the…Mar 71Mar 71
Wild IceSusan lying on the safe, frozen ice of the backyard pond, not deep or wide enough to qualify for the title “wild.” Feb 243Feb 243
What Exactly is Failing When Banks Fail?I don’t know about anyone else, but when I hear about a “bank run,” I immediately think of this scene from It’s a Wonderful Life. I think…Mar 28, 2023Mar 28, 2023
Waiting for the Second BiopsyYou do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe Sylvia PlathFeb 18, 2023Feb 18, 2023
Published inThe Story HallMiddlemarchIsn’t this the human condition? Dorothea opens the notebooks expecting genius, the project to which she’s subjugated her life and not…Feb 4, 20231Feb 4, 20231