Butter was something that separated me from the rest of America, made me alien in restaurants, in the school…
Some personal items and spaces are more private than others. You can open someone’s kitchen drawers…
Modern witches carry wands because the original witchy women were thought to have used their spindles to cast…
HOW THIS WORKS: I have a jar of nouns. I pick one at random and post it. If I’ve done this right, none of the prompts…
The zipper is the essence of technology. Simple and mechanical, its function quotidian, its reach viral. Other…
One of the things I always pack for travel is a washcloth in my carryon. Maybe another in my suitcase. I get the…
Silence drives me mad. Not the silence itself, but what shows up in it. I need the noise, the music, the…
When I was younger, I felt an impatience with the complainant nostalgia of older folks about vanished ways of social…
Before all cats turn grey, the world turns blue. The last color to come to the eye in the evening, and the first in the…
Puppies are good. Kittens. Though I am not a cat person, and kittens do grow into cats. Penguins and cows…