Half Light
The first and only haircut I have given was to my mother, and because we were both nervous I took my time setting up a single-seat beauty parlor in her room at the hospital in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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Women We Read This Week
Karalynn Moran’s “On Rubbernecking” in apt In her lyric essay, “On Rubbernecking,” Karalynn Moran revisits the experience of witnessing multiple trucks destroyed: her own…
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Together Apart
was driving a winding Ohio country road while my husband was at his mother’s funeral in Mexico. I was driving by myself, listening to…
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Melanie Bishop’s Nine Writers on Loss & Grief
One of the most painful parts of loss and grief is the way it alienates us at the time we most need human understanding….
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In the Form of Birds
The summer my father died I bought a book on Southwestern birds. It was he who had given me my first feeder on my 8th birthday…
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Women We Read This Week
Dena Rash Guzman’s “All the Things: Can You Describe the Ruckus?” in Whole Beast Rag The recent media fury to examine how women can…
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