AN ODE TO JIM AND MICHAEL On the morning Hurricane Michael arrived in the South Toe Valley, I opened my email to find a request from a neighbor for help with the body of their loved one who had died the previous day. Could I teach them how to tend him in their home…
Stories: Essays
Our essays tell the unique perspective of writers from our community who have ideas to share and Stories Stories to tell.
Eclipse Community
Eclipse Community About ten million of us headed to the “Arc of Totality” last Monday to see the solar eclipse. Tami and I went to Nashville to meet my brother Glen and Bill Klein who had traveled from Canada for the event. We booked into a crummy Best Western by Opryland—surrounded by a sea of…
You Are Not Alone
I want you to know it when you wake in the night and can’t sleep, when you wander the halls like a fevered stranger looking for the place you called home. This is not normal. It is not normal to watch the world we know and love slip away bit by bit. You are…
