The highway unravels between the mountains, settling into the deep grooves in the land. Pennsylvania is cold this time of year, grey. We skirt the mountain’s curve and a valley blossoms around the wide dark river. Rows of trees ripple brown under the grey sky. Red leaves like a school of fish move through the [...]
Flipping though my calendar trying to dissect time in days and To Do lists suddenly I realize two decades of my life will have passed next week and it seems impossible, four presidents three or so wars thirteen dance recitals. A wall in Berlin fell down and I built another in Legos and Lincoln Logs. [...]
I have been treading water for what feels like days. But it is always night in this cave, a night of dripping stalactites and the whisper of a thousand bat wings. The darkness floods my lungs and settles into my hair and eyelashes, fills the gaps in my ears and between my toes. At first [...]
Yesterday around 12:20pm, my cousins Johnny and Meredith Haines’ daughter was born. Her name is Bella Rose and she weighed somewhere around 7lbs. And she is beautiful! Congratulations Johnny and Meredith!
We drive through clouds hovering just above the round green heads of cornstalks. The windshield wipers flicker and each moment becomes a movie frame, a split second of black on gray. The road we are supposed to take is not a road. The tires dip and jump, bounding through potholes spewing geysers of mud. Thank [...]