Are You Parenting Small Children During a Pandemic, Or Are You Baba Yaga, the Ogress Who Lives In a Hut on Chicken Legs and Eats Her Victims?

It’s been a while since you visited the dentist. Some might say you’ve “let yourself go.” On a good day, you can engender the creation of a new life. On a bad day, your breasts swell like storm clouds.  Your most important possessions are your stove, broom, and mop. You are the keeper and releaser […]

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Love & other hard things

One out of seven jobless, Venezuela size statistics, but the Tongass is alive, listen—   the wilderness so thick, I could lean into this. No helicopters to spoil, and there’s a part of me   that likes to do hard things— like fool myself into jumping off this cliff sixty feet   into the drink, […]

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