Archives for December, 2020 - Page 2
The President and Me
I live ten miles from the most expensive golf course on the planet. It’s a 260-acre property with 18 fairways, situated on the Palos Verdes Bluffs that overlook the...
Clay Bodies
Centering The first and hardest step; without it the next steps will fail Everything is too fast. I’m going so fast. I’m presenting at a conference, I’m writing...
the raw/the cooked/the rotten/the cultured
pickling defies time/defines time/denies time Here is the closet where my miso is darkening for more than a year. Here is my continuous brewing jar half full...
City of Strangers, City of Ghosts
He was dark-coated, taller, probably college-aged or a bit younger. He was a stranger—or stranger than a stranger because he was the first unfamiliar person I had seen in...
Interview: Laconic Youth Discuss Current Events at an Outdoor, Socially-Distanced Party
-Scene 1- Cast– Q. Kindergarten, attending in person. 5 years old. G. First grade, attending remotely. 6 years old. KJ/Killjoy. College, attending remotely. 21 years old. [G and Q...
Notes on Writing— in crisis.
I’m scared to call it reporting, I say blinking back at my professor through a Zoom window. But then again, I am scared of a lot of things. I...
A Walk in the Park
It started this summer. When we could go outside again. We awoke from that long hibernation that took away our winter and spring and when the summer came we...
My grandparents got a new TV.
For watching our music, they said. I suspect my grandpa was in the market for a new gadget anyway. ...