We have no neighbors across the street, save the red fox and the gray fox, the mulberry trees, and the bunnies. This spring, rather suddenly, the mulberry trees fruited in…
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Image Credit: Side-street in Staroměstská, Prague. Taken on B&W Fomapan 400 by Lu Gallagher. On a Sunday evening in Malostranská, returning from Shakespeare a Synové where I had just…
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On Saturday, November 7th, 2020, four days after election day, all of the major news outlets called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden. During the previous four days, which…
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Image Credit: CB Wilson CB When did I first become aware I have a body? In the podcast “Living in this Queer Body,” host Asher Pandjiris begins each interview…
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Before we were told to avoid air travel, but after the lines at Costco were thirty people deep, the house finches chose our ledge. Through the window I saw one…
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I couldn’t reach you on your phone. At first, I reasoned that you were, of course, busy—there were people more immediate to your life to contact, family members to reassure,…
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Years ago, I retreated to an isolated Sri Lankan village that English people had transformed into an Eden for foreigners: twice-a-day yoga classes that culminated in foot rubs, vegan feasts…
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Image Credit: Sebastian Staines Fear: a combination of worries stemming from past experiences, often sitting adjacent to a can of kerosene. Fear tells you to stay away from the…
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Sifting under strawberry vines each week, I lift their long, leafy tendrils with god knows what on the end. Various shapes, colors, and stages of rottenness, or not. I’d planted…
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Image Credit: Bryan Engelmann I stepped outside of the medical plaza and texted my husband. The baby is dying. I’m going to miscarry again. He was several blocks away,…
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Curbside Pick-up Menu Family dinner for 2 Half smoked chicken w/salsa verde Roasted carrots with pistachio butter Caesar Salad Biscuits and honey butter Chocolate Mousse The phone rang and a…
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NICK EARHART lives in Pasadena, California, near Allendale Park. He is writing a dissertation on art, infrastructure, and urban space, and he also likes to draw and play…
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Despite what you might conclude after reading this story, my husband Terry and I lived harmoniously, grateful for every moment together. We married in our sixties, two college professors who…
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My mom was admitted to St. John’s Hospital on Wednesday, April 29, with fatigue, shortness of breath, fever, and confusion. Upon arrival, she tested positive for COVID-19. Three days later,…
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