Vanishing Point My father died in 2017 at the age of eighty-five. The death of a parent is a pivotal experience. A natural impulse is to try and put that parent’s life into some sort of recognizable context. It is a time of…
Sticker Collection Walmart Mad Lib When I was _________, I would hide ________________ in my ________________. (age) (plural object) …
Hormone Horoscope Day 17 After working all day, you pick the kids up from school, come home, sit on the couch and notice tension in your shoulders. Why? It wasn’t a particularly stressful day. You play Chutes and Ladders with your six-year-old son,…
The Vegan Way: 21 Days to a Happier, Healthier Plant-Based Lifestyle that Will Transform Your Home, Your Diet, and You Jackie Day St. Martin’s Griffin, $25.99 In The Vegan Way, written by Jackie Day, we are drawn in with a question: “If you…
The Memory Eaters Elizabeth Kadetsky University of Massachusetts Press 208 pages The Memory Eaters is Elizabeth Kadetsky’s inquiry into the labyrinth of holes that is her dying mother’s past, and by extension, her own. Some of these holes are literal ones in her mother’s…
Lost Soles Wily ghost that she is, she haunts me in odd ways. Improbably, the Moroccan slippers are one of the things that most often evoke memories of her. I had bought them in the Arab bazaar in Grenada, a city I first heard…
My teacher uses a horribly dried out Expo marker to draw yet another circle around the word “inauthenticity” on the white board. She’s erased and written so many things already that it makes the already complicated philosophical topics even harder to understand. The girl…