A quick note to let you know that “Lifeguard,” my newest personal essay, has been published by the wonderful online journal Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. “Lifeguard” started out as one of a series of essays I wrote based on…
May!
It’s May. How did May get here? I spent four hours today trying to catch up on yard work by digging in our small patch of front garden with a pitchfork. I turned over dirt and sprinkled grass seed and…
Upstate New York, in an in-between moment
I’ve always been fascinated by “in-between moments.” Snippets of time after one thing and before another appear, to me, to be where the living really is, or at least where the opportunity exists to think about where the living really…
The first week of August…
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a…