Musings on how a single nomad makes peace in planting roots.

  • Baci Blessings

    ~Do I experience the world because I keep my heart and eyes open, or are my heart and eyes open because I experience the world?~ One by one, the elders of the clan gathered in the living room and approached the newborn on their knees. Gently, they each tied a single white string around the…

  • About This Week’s Post Fellow readers, As someone who used to carry a bit of hubris with her health, it’s been an adjustment setting up shop in a world that revolves around scans and lab work and a forever intake of thyroid medication, all rendering me liability and last-pick on the dodgeball zombie apocalypse team. What

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    Different dishes on a checked table cloth. Decorative image
  • In 2006, I wrote the poem below about my grandfather for a history class assignment. Read more about his story here. “Grandpa Never Speaks”  Grandpa never speaks.Not even in this country where free speech is our highest ideal.  Not even in this protected nation where there are no Kaisers, no empires, no German officers.  Not

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  • Perimenopause. Is it too late for children?Choices I face now.  Before, no freedom.Now, paradox of choices.And… microplastics.  Every stores’ itemsWill some day join a landfill.But: independence.  What is legacy? My great-grandmother’s choices.Do they continue  Through me or do IStop because I am afraid. Not from solitude  Or raising kids byMyself, which she did beforeHer kids were taken.  But

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    Little girl in front of a taxidermy of a polar bear
  • Silhouetted figure        Thrown! Bomb explodes, Reveal            A  Very clever  Draining       power  Of the         City.  How convenient. We could Simply Plug ourselves in   A large scale monochromatic figure.  A roller by Berlin Forms the cosmopolitan fabric of sight Augmented by the Inspired Lady drawn.

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    Photo collage as decorative art featuring clips of women in murals along sides of buildings