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“Oh,” Britt says with a knowing smile on her face, “this is your first experience in public with twins, isn’t it?” She says it as a warning but already I am ill prepared. We have taken a spur of [...]

If Monday was hauling wood day, sweat pouring down my neck and filtering through my shirt or collecting in dirty lines along the crease of each elbow, and Tuesday was ditch-digging day, whereupon [...]

Women’s Singing Night takes place up at the craft school this week and tonight we are six plus a large dog named Weston and a pea-sized dog named Pig. We sit outside around a picnic table with a [...]

On a whim I ask the mechanics at S&S Qwik Stop if they think $757 is too much for a distributor cap, spark plugs, computer chip, and labor. “Good Lord Allmighty!,” the assistant manager [...]

Joyful, joyful, joyful. This is what I try to say to myself when I see that I am taking on an anxious perspective. Big crush on someone that’s not right for me and is leaving anyway? Oh well, [...]

It occurs to me that I have not hiked higher into the Black Mountains in over a month. My mind can journey across lifetimes and road trips of the imagination for hours on end as I get lost in my [...]

This morning a dew-drenched yellow light filtered through the mixed forest on the property as if to greet me with all the strength of heart I will ever need to live my life. Be where you are, I [...]

Vic offers pristine advice at the height of my anxiety: “Choose differently. And if you can’t choose differently, then pretend you can for a while and eventually you will be able to.” We are [...]

“What do you want?” I ask Riley. We are squatting in a small, dense patch of the garden that needs to be weeded. A soft, slow rain falls but we don’t care. “Freedom.” “I want to write about you. [...]

It is Women’s Singing Night at the end of a full shift at the coffeehouse. On three hours’ sleep and a double Americano I’m a little weary of singing. In order to sing with my heart I have to be [...]