Image Credit: Stefan Keller from Pixabay Papa had the curious custom of planting a seed in the garden of our home after every person who had grown dear to him. The…
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On Route 17M, heading toward New Jersey for Aunt Mary’s wake, my father asks me to keep an eye on the pond at the Goshen exit. At 70 mph, I…
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* * * resurrection sunday (during the 2020 pandemic) It was 7 am easter sunday i was sitting and sipping tea when a cardinal landed on the balcony, two more…
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ConversationFeaturedInterviewPoetry“Staging the end of a limiting self”: A Conversation with Mike Soto
When Mike Soto and I talk, we rarely talk about poetry. Especially during basketball season. But I always learn a lesson or two from Mike when the conversation does turn…
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Image Credit: Richie Bautista Ramon towers above me. DANGER. PELIGRO: Do Not Stand On Or Above This Rung, the stickers below his feet read. He waves for the leaf blower…
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What is a question that has stayed with you through time, clung to you like an inhalation? What is a question that pulls you out from syncope? For me, it…
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Image Credit: Dev Murphy My mother called me last week to tell me she had dreamed of her sister Christy’s trip to the hospital before it happened. Minor illness.…
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DAVID MAHLER is an Australian filmmaker and visual artist based in Melbourne. Selected by the City of Melbourne to partake in the 2017 Signal Screen Arts Commission, he has…
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There are lots of self-help and wellness blogs out there. Oftentimes, bloggers use their digital accomplishments—i.e. lots of social media followers and/or a freewheelin’ digital nomad lifestyle—as a platform to…
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ConversationFeaturedFictionInterview“Look at grace head on and it was never there”: A Conversation with Paul Cohen
Appropriately enough, I finished reading Paul Cohen’s The Glamshack in the middle of a heatwave that temporarily turned Eugene, Oregon into Memphis, Tennessee. My wife and I had traveled to…
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Growing up with a mother who regularly taught Sunday School meant that I didn’t get to skip church much as a child. Faith was a word that circled around me…