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Childhood
Distractions
Reading at work, listening to music during labor, swatting gnats while meditating
July 2026
Puzzle Pieces
He places the misshapen square / in the hole of my face—how easy to complete, to mend us, to turn / what was missing into what is found.
July 2026Soup
At the restaurant with white linens / and candles in glass cups, I remember, / my grandfather sent back the soup.
July 2026A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
July 2026
No Politics
Rabbi Shmuley went over the ground rules: “We are here to learn from each other, not to argue. Certainly not to compete. Don’t deny anyone’s experience. Don’t deny anyone’s subjectivity. And, of course, no politics.”
July 2026
The Empty Room Inside Each of Us
Crumb is always right, always the one telling the story, always the one who turns the drab, lonesome plains they call home into a world that’s dramatic and necessary.
June 2026
Formed Otherwise
There’s a presumption that to raise a child with disabilities makes you brave. I wasn’t brave. I wasn’t always a stellar mother, either. But I studied my daughter as if she were an ancient text to see what was beneath the chatter and the rage.
June 2026
The Feeding
Some leeches have two jaws. Others have three. Some have teeth on their tongues. There are protective leeches who hover over their eggs, and leeches who carry their newborns in pouches like tiny kangaroos.
June 2026
A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
June 2026
Milk
Pumped for an infant, spilled at the dinner table, used as a tear gas antidote
June 2026
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