April 5, 2026
Hot cross buns on Friday,
hiding eggs on Sunday,
sugar-fuelled chaos
and tinfoil aftermath.
March 15, 2026
In June of 1973 after almost a year of studying Spanish, Dad and I had finally realized our dream of traveling to Mexico. After riding most of the day by bus from Tucson to Nogales, Arizona, then from Nogales to Hermosio by train, I was just glad to be here.
March 13, 2026
My father carried a black bag
bulging with the magic of his trade —
powders, ointments, penicillin pills —
to coax an ailing patient back to life.
But at home, where doctors cleanse their minds…
March 3, 2026
On a toasty summer day, I run to our local Asian grocery store in Amherst, Massachusetts with only one thought on my mind — I have to get tamarind sauce and taste that strong, tangy flavor.
February 1, 2026
Julia was only half listening. She was concentrating on her dad. Looking at the redness in his wrinkled cheeks, at his thin lips bent into a faint smile and at the sparkle in his small, sunken eyes as he continued to stare through the glass.
January 31, 2026
She had warm, round eyes and an oddly familiar smile, with the left side of her mouth going higher than the right. She reminded him of someone, but he couldn’t remember who. It would come to him, perhaps.
December 20, 2025
The scent of pine enveloped her as the tinsel on the tree shimmered in the first light of dawn peeking through the front windows.
December 9, 2025
With her camel humps bound in an iron brassiere of modesty, she inspired me, the newest magi, to bring cinnamon to the kitchen crèche…
December 1, 2025
**Contains Triggers: death, mourning** There was no sense of winter, and certainly no sense of Advent. Summer or winter – she didn’t really care. She had nothing to look forward to in either season.
November 26, 2025
Another Thanksgiving is in the books. The kitchen is all in disarray, and we all pitch in to clean. We’ll all see each other another day, but this evening was about more than just cuisine.
November 11, 2025
A veterans’ home where aging grandmas tell their tales of serving when they thought women should have been at home preserving.
October 18, 2025
Her old Poppy thought she was the best.
He wouldn’t trade her for all the rest, even when she put him to the test.