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Practicing
Taking piano lessons, learning to speak Russian, seeking enlightenment
May 2026
My Bowstring Heart
On the field I was all animal instinct and brute force—a bruiser, a bone breaker. Every tackle was a rebuke against a life where fathers die. When I played rugby, I wasn’t a broke, lost little girl. I wasn’t a struggling amateur writer. I had goals. I was a winner. I was MVP. I was someone.
May 2026
A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
March 2026
The Wall of Death
The Wall of Death is a rare piece of Americana, a vintage live-action show featuring a silo-shaped wooden cylinder thirty feet in diameter. Inside this motordrome, daredevils on motorcycles ride a fourteen-foot wall.
September 2025
Keening for the Cailleach
The best nights are when moonlight comes through the trees, casting indigo shadows across the ice. My partner swoops around, his arms swinging in front of his crouched body. “It’s the closest we get to flying,” he said once as he sailed past me. Another time: “Maybe this is how a dolphin feels carving through the water.” He loves the tension of the blade slicing across the surface, the whoosh of his skates drawing elaborate patterns on the ice, the crunch of a hockey stop. I listen for the occasional owl.
February 2025
Shaving
A teenage rite of passage, a prison barber, a husband’s unfamiliar face
July 2024
Uniforms
For a job at Burger King, a prison in North Carolina, a girls’ school in Iran
June 2024
Loving a Sport That Doesn’t Always Love Me Back
I’ve always enjoyed pickup: the sudden poetry of it, the immediate bond and intimacy among strangers. . . . It’s all guts and very little glory—yet there is some glory, even if only a handful of spectators are watching. One OHHHHHHH, after you cross someone so hard they fall on their ass, can make you hold your head high for the rest of the week.
March 2024
A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
January 2024
A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
November 2023
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