Mirrors to the soul

I love animals. I grew up with a mangy menagerie that at any given time included hamsters, gerbils, birds, mice, and cats. And dogs. Oh, the dogs. I spent my adolescence pretty much covered in dog hair. I never did much with horses, though. I always wanted to, but unless you have a parent who [...]

Rhetorical Questions

Have you cut your hay where you had no right to or turned your animals into another person’s grain or field, without his knowledge or consent? Have you branded an animal that you did not know to be your own? Do you wash your body and have your family do so as often as health [...]

Choosing to Work During Life’s Second Half

Last September, after sixteen years of having a child at home, I watched my youngest trudge up the stairs of a big yellow school bus, his backpack filled with the accoutrements of all-day Kindergarten. I’d never cried when my other three children had gone to Kindergarten — they were ready, I was ready — but [...]

The Non-Linear Career Path

Growing up I watched most adults in my life pursue and stick with one generally linear career track (my dad still works for the same company he started with 32 years ago and my mother has always stayed a home). From the time I got ideas about what I wanted to study and do with [...]

Running buddies

We come together in the early morning dark, on street corners or in front of our houses, whispering our greetings to each other. We have sleep in our voices, and mascara under our eyes, with hair pulled back in hasty ponytails. No one cares that I wear the same thing almost every single morning. Under [...]

Recent Comments

Find us on these aggregators