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Childhood
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
Practicing
Taking piano lessons, learning to speak Russian, seeking enlightenment
May 2026
Separation
There is a dead snake on the cracked road. My son says it’s not a dead snake. He says the snake has just shed its skin and left it there.
May 2026Rise
I wasn’t about to tell Simon what happened. Buddy Sikes was one of the popular kids. Simon wouldn’t understand. Not because of his differences, but because he was still at the age where a clear line separated right from wrong.
May 2026
Struck
I often wonder if there was something I missed, if the thunder and lightning said something I couldn’t understand.
May 2026
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