Creative Economies in the Coal Fields
I GREW UP IN APPALACHIA, just outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Tennessee. Continue reading
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Cosmic Fruit
COLD STRAWBERRY soup stimulates honeymooners. So goes the thought in rural France. Medieval botanists believed that strawberries, being many-seeded, aided fertility. Both Venus and Freyja, Roman and Norse goddesses of love, Continue reading
Biking with Butterflies
WHAT I DIDN’ T KNOW, as I crawled through that ditch alongside a lonely Texas highway, was that a cop was racing to my rescue. Continue reading
On Edges
During a summer spent deep in the backcountry, one family learns the value of getting lost and the danger of staying found. Continue reading
The Silent Labyrinth
(AUDIO: Listen to the author’s words paired with the work of sound artist Gretchen Jude.) THERE IS A PHOTO of me just at the moment: a faded black newsboy Continue reading