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Seeds 19 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
My grandfather lives among the trees. He is streaked with dirt, brown as a fallen acorn. When he walks, the leaves bend under his feet. Years ago, he kept caged pigeons in his garden. In the morning, ...
Snow in Mongolia 14 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
When I phone Amaglan in Mongolia, the first thing I want to tell her is that it’s snowing here in the U.S. But I can’t find the words for it. This shocks me. I sit there, holding the phone, watching t...
The Journey in the Song 7 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm
“But what can be the shared space of meaning and sound?” Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening “All I’ve got to put in a song is my own experience,” Leonard Cohen once said, speaking about the process of songwrit...
My Husband Travels 29 Jul 2013 | 06:54 pm
It was eight minutes before the taxi arrived to take my husband to the airport. We were in the bathroom, throwing toiletries into a tartan sponge bag. “Here’s your glasses cloth,” I said, treading car...
The Trip Inside 22 Jul 2013 | 07:56 pm
Warm summer night, window open, leaves cutting the streetlight into pieces that flickered across the bedroom floor. We lay on top of the sheets, him on his side, me under his arm. I said I couldn’t sl...
Women We Read This Week 20 Jul 2013 | 02:18 am
It’s exciting and encouraging to note that two of the most significant and widely discussed stories this week were by female journalists. They’re reviewed below. Jeanne Marie Laskas’s “Have You Heard ...
The Antidote for Personal Narrative 19 Jul 2013 | 02:14 am
A month from now, I will be a full-time kindergarten teacher. This was not part of the plan. The plan was… well, there wasn’t much of one, other than to Be A Writer and Write A Book–you know, those th...
The View from the Sitting Room 15 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
One morning, the women in the Kabul house awoke with a particular sense of purpose. After the dawn prayer, when Nazo would usually roll back into bed and sleep in as long as she could, Nafisa nudged...
Travels with Carly 8 Jul 2013 | 07:29 pm
“I’m pregnant,” Carly said. It was only 7 a.m. in Australia and her voice was still raspy. In my Skype box, she looked tired but happy – and totally unruffled – as she followed one confounding statem...
Homing Instincts 1 Jul 2013 | 07:47 pm
There are five types of navigation, five ways to find your way home: topographic, celestial, magnetic, olfactory and true. Topographic is used by the lowest forms of life, your mollusks and your limpe...
