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June bugs and misguided moths concuss themselves against the windows incessantly at night. Each sudden, hollow flwap! against the window sounds like a crisp, solitary raindrop whose path has been [...]

“Hey, guess what?” Keller says as we briskly walk down the sidewalk away from the meditation center. He slides the side door of his Vanagan open with one muscular whoosh, then reaches quickly [...]

Vic and I are at Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe in BigCity, NC when the torrential downpour begins. As a native Oregonian, the rain is my second skin but I will confess that there is nothing [...]

There are no words. Agitation and restlessness can be the death of a writer. Forward-thinking for a nonfiction writer carries similar risks. There are only so many words for speculation before it [...]

It is so hard to go back to a friendship that meant the world to me and dive into the past with heart-stopping breath. In high school Lindsay (1, 2) and I became very close and our friendship [...]

Mel and I meet at her studio so I can learn a new way home by foot. I arrive thirty minutes late so we have little time for small talk but she does show me the etching she has been working on all [...]

Although it has been thirty-eight degrees for the past two mornings, the forest is in full bloom, extending its jungle growth from trunk to trunk, canopy to topsoil. The view from my writing desk [...]

“Are you allergic to everything?” This from three-year-old Drew, my friend Britt’s daughter. I have just offered her my fortune cookie from my Chicken Curry take-out dish. Drew has the pale skin [...]

“He’s definitely playing the field,” my friend Kim says to me after meditation practice this morning. We are walking to lunch and she’s just stated that she noticed Keller and I hanging out more [...]

For many women there is no such thing as the day-to-day. Life runs in twenty-eight day cycles but is strongly magnetized to other forces such as the tides, the cycles of the moon, the cycles of [...]