Childhood

A Child in the Kitchen

I look back on summer days spent in the Bulgarian countryside with a fondness that truly testifies to the joy and…

Revisiting Childhood Fall Crafts

Recreating memories and cherishing small moments

Simon’s Kabourophobia

A poem told from the point of view of the young protagonist for one of my longer…

Prodigy — Living the Dream

The folie a deux of stage parents

The God of Forgetting

The agony of long slow summers as a child

A Temple Curtain Rent

One thing I know — none escape the Fall

Birth of a Hermit

In the half-light of afternoon
she sculpts potatoes.
You know to say nothing — 
her Cordon Bleu course
working its way through…

Caterpillars

The summer of the tent caterpillars

MY MOTHER’S DAUGHTER

In the Mirror, I see, and it is you I find

Kids Aren’t Brats, They Are Precocious

At Least That’s My Story