A Lavender-Lemon Cake
Wake up and set the coffee, scoop it out slowly, making sure to not spill the grounds. The pot always fills with steam before it fills with coffee, because the […]
Wake up and set the coffee, scoop it out slowly, making sure to not spill the grounds. The pot always fills with steam before it fills with coffee, because the […]
Most things come easily to me, things you wouldn’t expect from a boy with no discernible talent. Things like baseball, calculus, forgiveness never came easy to me, but love did. […]
I was five when I told my first lie. We lived in Kentucky then. In a little ranch house with not enough room. My sister slept in the laundry room, […]
It was hard to find a comfortable position. I’m long-limbed and can never stay still for long. I wrapped my body around an old leather jacket and road the north-bound […]
I still have the same dream as when I was fourteen. I’m flying in a plane and it is raining outside, I stare lazily like a cat. We’re heading to […]
I have met a hundred people this week and cannot remember anyone’s name. I gave thirty-eight cents to a homeless man and didn’t look him in the eyes. I think I […]
This all happened before I left for Pennsylvania, before I was reminded of the as it was. Of the constant state of charm and chaos that exists when you visit a […]
I’ve been thinking of dimensions. Sizes and expansiveness. How, if I shout at you, you hear me only so far away. How memories echo like voices and it gets muffled […]
I’ve worn glasses since I lived in Kentucky, some odd 17 years ago. I remember the exact day I couldn’t read the board anymore. My teacher thought I was lying, […]
The theme this year was burlap and wheat. Tactile, scratchy. It irritated the skin, the colors were mute. The vase full of weeds and blooms were foraged on the morning […]