Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Monday, August 8, 2016 It's August, so we must be in Australia. Just kidding. Here’s what happened: One Saturday morning in April, after the doctor stitched my Achilles back together but before I could shower without the three legged medical stool, I was idly, and somewhat opioidately, reclining on the …
Lemongrass
Siem Reap, Cambodia Monday, March 20, 2017 As my go-everywhere bag this trip, I brought a purse that belonged to my mom—a medium-sized, easy-to-clean, forest-green REI bag equipped with anything an intrepid traveler might need. Aside from the painful fact that whenever I catch sight of myself and this bag and my thick shoulders …
Different Soundtracks
Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark Tuesday, May 9, 2017 When my boys turned five, I got them ponies. There was Texas, a wily pinto gelding, and Daffodil, a palomino with a white stripe down her lovely face. The ponies would live in our backyard, except for on Christmas morning, when they would come in the house …
In Case you were wondering about the Plums
My mom used to shrug off indulgence with a poem. “This is just to say”, she would murmur, slicing the dense chocolate cake frosted with fudge so thick that we could peel it off and eat it in slabs. “So sweet/and so cold”, I would finish, reaching around her to sliver off my own corner …
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ICEBOX PLUMS: Moments, sweet and cold 