Our stories for January 2022 are… “The Killers,” by Ernest Hemingway (1927) and “New York Day Women,” by Edwidge Danticat (1996) and “Jubilee,” by Kirsten Valdez Quade (2013) We will gather online in January 2022 to discuss. Want in? Comment on this post and I will send you more information.
All posts in December 2021
Vocal Improvisation and Functional Empathy
I hear the two-year-old growling in the other room and I hope the eight-year-old will entertain him long enough that I can squish together some words here. I think about how he just turned two, and that maybe in a year we can introduce to him the trajectory onto which I was delivered as an…
Jerry Is a Stray That I Want to Sleep on My Pillow
A twitchy orange tomcat named Jerry doesn’t belong to me, but damn it if I want to bring him inside, give him milk, check him for bugs, groom him however cats tolerate such an ordeal, and just generally domesticate him so that he will turn into a mama cat and have kittens in my room.…