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The Trouble With Communicating Awe
Awe: for some of us, it happens once a year if we’re lucky. It quakes us when we stand on a bluff, gazing at a wall of silver mountains. It sweeps us skyward if we’re lucky enough to fall in love.
Backstory: Do The Write Thing
Something happens, and your body tells you it’s wrong and you swallow the language that wants to come out. The child smacked in the mall food court, the mentally challenged man harassed by teens, the homeless woman not allowed to use a restaurant bathroom: How many times have you eaten your words?
Backstory: Of Infinite Jest
Humor is lifeblood. Thank god for it. When a sense of bleakness blankets me, which can happen a little too often, humor saves.
When The Impossible Becomes Real
We went out back, put the tabs on our tongues, and before long Jesse began to move toward me. My eyes were on the undulating leaves of a viney wall behind him, the flora trying to communicate something I was on the verge of understanding …
Backstory: Behind The Journey
When I was 22, Greyhound was running a special: travel across the country with as many stops as you like for $100. I was achingly in love with the first of several men who would not love me in return.
Dream Battle: Foray Into Words
Since the blood transfusions my dreams are suffused with brassy weirdness.
The Messy Sparkles
Admit it, you’ve heard of Messy Sparkles, JD Paul, man about town, house show regulator, George’s go-to afterparty starter, pet lover.
