After days of rain, wind howling swells of the Beaufort Sea onto the rocky shoreline with a spray of salt and spume, the rain turns to sleet and then sleet turns to snow. It should be spring already on the 141st meridian—where the border between the US and Canada gestures […]
Fresno, California. 1973. Not everyone gets a chance to watch their parents fall in love. I was six when it happened. My mother tended bar at the Airport Marina Lounge, where she first met Marshall. She’d wake me late at night and I’d yawn and shuffle after her in my […]
She says, “If I leave before you, darling Don’t you waste me in the ground.” —Iron & Wine If I were to walk outside and turn west onto Silver Star Road, the day’s traffic passing by in a blur of metal as my arms hang useless at my sides […]