Out of the corner of my eye I see two elderly ladies come onto the streetcar. I keep an eye out for these ladies. I’m like an old lady vigilante. If there’s young able- bodied people sitting in the only three seats reserved for elderly and disabled, I give them the stink eye. Maybe…
I leaf through drifts of paper assigning letters like decoration. Connected to each letter is a life a dorm room a Facebook page a beating heart a family eagerly awaiting . My fingers move across a keyboard calculating The sun rises and falls in wider swaths each day The drifts melt and then accumulate…
Has a recipe ever performed a healing or transformative role in your life? The earliest recipe books did not concern themselves with soup and pastry: they provided directions for magic. Papyrus relics from Egypt, written in Greek, Egyptian, Hebrew and Aramaic attest to a range of recipes for spells and healing potions. Later, as…