These Days Will Come
It takes nine quarters to do a load of her laundry, the older woman whom I have helped every week for a year-and-a-half. Today, I’m worried that I might have to […]
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The Price of Closeness
Sewanee, TN – I remembered what the ranger told me in Arkansas: “Everything here is poisonous.” I was trying to adapt to life in Tennessee but it seemed like everything […]
Tennessee Health Bars
Sewanee, TN – Rural Tennessee promised to hold stories and lemonade on the front porch, plus who could go wrong in a state with so many double letters? I had […]
Chapulines
This afternoon, I visit the neighbor kids’ house. Vale, the sixth grader, comes out of the kitchen with a bowl. “You want some? Try these.” In the bowl are about […]
