Shattered ThundereggMy perfect agate shattered with a sharp plink on an unseasonably hot October day. I’d been reaching up to a high shelf and knocked a…Jan 28, 2021Jan 28, 2021
Wednesday DinnerOn a miserable and drizzly November evening nine years ago, I sat down to a bowl of pasta with my ex-husband. The streetlights had stayed…Nov 27, 2019Nov 27, 2019
Casual Car Conversation between a white Mom, and her 12 year old son, who is African American:Him: “Mom, guess what? We saw the Po-Po down in Columbia City today.”Dec 4, 2017Dec 4, 2017
Penny Dreadful HalloweenHere is a little black cat story, more serendipitous than scary, about our small cat Penny Dreadful.Oct 31, 2017Oct 31, 2017
Googling Someone to Exhume my Dog(originally published on Open Salon in 2010)Apr 28, 2017Apr 28, 2017
Glenn Smalley Died on the FloorGlen Smalley died on the bedroom floor of a Kansas farm house on the fifth of December, 1918. It was a historically mild and dry Kansas…Nov 7, 2016Nov 7, 2016
When the Music ReturnedOn the day the music returned, I drove myself to work as usual, steering my car into the seedy wasteland underneath the Alaskan Way Viaduct…Apr 24, 2015Apr 24, 2015
Together in the middle of the circle of the skyJust post dawn in the burgeoning light my twelve year old daughter and I climbed the winding road up through the Koke’e mountains as our…Apr 16, 2015Apr 16, 2015
