There’s alchemy in daily prayer when you release that element of the weariness of the world. Humanity when you witness the profound harm that human beings...
Smiley missed his mother’s touch and her kisses, which felt like the smooth, ruffling of feathers. She worked as a domestic worker what people where he...
The page frees me in a sense, in a way I can’t describe. I write and that’s my life. I am a mother and a wife...
Shut the door. Shut out the quiet light. Tell yourself to swim away from the tigers with arms pillars of smoke. One day I will find...
Miss Gilbey taught Speech and Drama. Every Friday afternoon as the car speeded down the highway en route to her studio cum house I would learn...
Elijah, you are a beautiful book. Just an imprint burned on my brain like a ghost. I miss you more than most on some days, just...
There are so many things going through Gail’s head at this point in time. By the sea, part natural, part supernatural, it spits driftwood out in...
Whenever disaster strikes me in my world, I think of home (home as sanctuary, soft place to fall in flight, and adrenaline rush), or I go...
We never did get around to building the swimming pool in our backyard that my wife and I often spoke about. We said it would be...
It is the worst feeling in the world when you are rejected by a man, any man, but when it is the love of your life....
