January 2010
4 posts
November 2009
43 posts
“Kyoikumama”
– In Japanese, this word refers to a mother who relentlessly pushes her children toward academic achievement.
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“Mamihlapinatapai: A look shared by two people with each wishing that the other...”
– Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego
May 2009
1 post
Et notre jeunesse de miel...
Lying on my squeaky spring wire bed, facing the stark naked wall of my campus apartment, my humble abode for the summer, I was struck by a sudden sense of coming full circle. I remembered, when I was young, maybe five or six, my parents, grandmother, and I all crammed in a small one bedroom apartment in Iowa, and my room was a corner partitioned off of the living room every. And every night I...
December 2008
1 post
November 2008
8 posts
musical chairs
She could feel the dull ache in her right knee again. Christmastime.
Snowflakes on the tip of her nose
she thought she could remember. The snap of a crackling fire.
Salty ice and gravel graze the sides of her shovel.
The icicles that captured her imagination,
Frozen gutter art.
Somewhere inside a baby wails, wrapped against the warm breast of his grandmother.
Her grandmother.
Outside, paradise,...