Writer’s Island

Epidemic movies, how do I love thee? For some reason, when the going gets tough, I like to curl up with a disease movie—even a bad o...

for Mason Already she mourns the summer, the creek riding past, waving, looking back over its shoulder, her son with a tentative stick...

I just sized down to a smaller house. It’s a good thing—a decision, a life plan. The house I was in was too large and too expensive, and I ...

1. The Color Know this: You will end up hating it. Half- done, the blanket will wind through your sleep in marled blue, horse-blanket ...

The other night I got home from work, exhausted and out of sorts. I was debating what to do with my tired-ass evening when I saw just the t...

 Jumping spiders Very big ants A brown grasshopper on the freshly painted front door The whispery poplar tree in the back yard Canada...

I recently bought a house. This didn’t happen overnight—it was the culmination of a 15-month search during which I toured 42 houses and dro...