Dumpster Chicken

1.    I remember eating dumpster chicken when I was 19. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was playing house...

The Long Run

“Clean air, clean water, open spaces – these should once again be the birthright of every American.” ~ President Richard M. Nixon (R), 1970...

Dinner Party

“Dinner at 7?” Kristin texts and out of habit I find the thumbs-up emoji and hit send. But then it’s 6:50 and Acadia calls...

The Art of Letting Go

I followed our moving van over Boston's Tobin Bridge from Gloucester, Massachusetts. I was newly divorced; my four-year-old boy was belted into his car...

Some Girls Have All the Luck, Some Girls Have All the Pain

The week I read Emily May’s essay collection Some Girls, I visit the Wayne Thiebaud exhibit “Art Comes From Art” at the Legion of...

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

What We Collect

I do not collect anything tangible, only the fleeting feelings and textures of motherhood, moments I turn over in my mind like a rock...

Spring Reading

Inside the packed church with its windows wide open, I should have been sad like the rest of the sweating congregation. But I didn’t...

Merrow

For Mary Hawsley Sullivan Howard, fourth-great-grandmother (1841-1890) Mary did not die falling into that tavern well, she was reborn. Swirling in amniotic fluid, floating in pure grain alcohol,...
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Advice

Notes From a Veteran Querier

If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

Further Reading