Heather E. Goodman
Heather E. Goodman currently teaches high school and volunteers with adults working toward their GED, but one of her first jobs was dressing as the Kool-Aid Man. She and her partner and pups live in a log cabin along a creek in Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in Gray’s Sporting Journal, The Boston Globe, and the Chicago Tribune, where her story won the Nelson Algren Award.
Glimpses
This is how we say I love you in my family:
“I stopped the truck to move two toads off the driveway last night.”
“The walking iris has three blooms on it today.”
“On my way to work, a fox crossed the road with a mallard in its mouth.”
May 2025
After The Flood
When we went back outside, Tom had stopped sawing and was repotting the bare vine. “You never know,” he said. He’s right, of course. We don’t know what the world will bring, what power lies in a salvaged tomato plant, what we all do to build back, survive, thrive.
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