Unspreading
I attended a doctoral defense yesterday at my school. Ours is not a huge faculty, so there are less than a handful of these exciting events each school...
Author: Aldean
Blocked? Busy? Either way, still blank
The blank page. Staring back, no matter how long I stare at it. Waiting, without the slightest hint or notion of either patience or impatience. ...
Will we have a farm?
My family and I have spent a beautiful weekend on a working “vacation farm” in rural New York. Growing up as I did in a almost-entirely agricultura...
Until the music stops
There will be no way of knowing when my heart will stop working. But it will: I am quite sure of that. Not soon, don’t worry. I imagine I have a solid twen...
Beginning to sit again
I still remember my first stories. Not every detail, not at all. But I remember that they happened, the circumstances, and how it felt to tell them, and t...