After feeling anxious for years, first in childhood stomach aches, then in the mid-twenties chest pains, both times with the dread, the worry, the terror, a doctor said to me:…
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Word of the day: “hleów-feðer” – lit. “shelter-feather” (Anglo-Saxon); a comforting or protective arm placed around someone or something. (Robert Macfarlane, posted on Instagram, November 10, 2017) The cardinals’ nest…
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Image Credit: Ray Nalangan (Please Wake Up) I remember the first time I saw Sarah. I was working for the Department of Physical Therapy in the intensive care…
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A tiny song sparrow lights on the feeder. It peeps as it eats. Casts its little bead-black eyes up and around incessantly, scanning for hawks, falcons, danger. The chickens in…
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A new series, The Waters, is looking for written submissions as part of our ongoing Calls For Submissions: I’m interested in water. The waviness of it. The ocean. Bodies of water.…
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For a most of a summer, Andrea and I stay in my grandmother’s cabin in Inverness. While Grandma travels through Oregon and Washington, Andrea and I repaint the kitchen and…
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There are roughly eighteen thousand bird species in the world. Many of these birds fly and others waddle and a few hum and some swim. And all of these birds…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Parents Who Work, a System That Doesn’t Giancarlo, the smog guy, always struck me as remarkably good-natured for someone who worked in a fume-filled shoebox all day. When I’d…
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In the bed, my leg a hill, when I sit up it redistributes itself. I cross: the skin-surface rippled, wind on a sea sky-lit. When did I get these…
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My great-grandfather killed his wife. Negligent homicide they’d call it today. Good intentions gone wrong. I’d heard the story of that blistering summer’s eve over a century ago a thousand…
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I was watching Vanderpump Rules when the search committee chair called to say I’d been nominated for Bishop of Southern Virginia. I twice declined the call, from a number I…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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If you run my mother’s name through a search engine, the third or fourth spot down is an article about something good she may have done. After that it’s all…