Murder.

During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light...

A day doesn’t go by when I don’t look at them, she said. I can’t have them up on the kitchen refrigerator or in a frame in the bedroom–I just can’t do it, I just...

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

The world is filled with human toxins — not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that...

And when something wasn’t working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn’t especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs — she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the already dead...

Sara knew that behind its locked front door no home was routine. Not the house of her childhood, not the apartment of her husband’s. not the world they were building together with Willow and Patrick....

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

But it’s funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

We can.

But for most of the world- for most of Vermont- the Cape Abenaki meltdown is just another bit of old news. Tsunamis. School shootings. Syria. We watch it, we read about it, and then we...

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially–romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

She didn’t care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.