Until After the Breaking

Until After the Breaking

“Love has no meaning until after the breaking” from Sara Maitland’s Virgin Territory Blue One leaps over bees and yellow...

On a Good Hike You Get Lost

On a Good Hike You Get Lost

That time in Nicolet Forest: Staying at a friend’s cabin, knowing no one in the area, ecstatic to hike alone....

And the River Laughs

And the River Laughs

(thanks to my sister Pattie and her sidekick Robert) We name the river parts and the river laughs. We say...

photography by Susa Silvermarie

Tenderized

That mashing of my heart started at 18 when I was dying, when I teetered on the cusp. Motherhood, scant...