Sisterhood

The God I imagined looked sort of like Albert Brooks, but with a beard. We all know how holy beards are. After three days at the monastery, I expected this bearded comedian to wander in the room and say, “Everything going okay? Can I get you anything?” When God talk is constant and enveloping, when […]

So we’re standing out in the hot Missouri summer humidity, and before us is the mouth of the cave. You want to go in there. It’s hot. Also you want to go there because there are children with your party, and you’re thinking real hard about how you can explain to children that you […]

Flies/Honey

So I went to this wonderful writing class, and got all this love and encouragement to write. Now I wake up and feel guilty that I am not writing. Like, in my sleep, I guess. I’m not “working,” so I should be writing between eighteen and twenty-two hours a day, right? I go have lunch […]

Asking For It

There were so many rooms in Chicago, and I was desperate to see all of them– the modern wing, the Grant Wood, all of it. I had been to the Art Institute ten years prior– I just didn’t remember anything but a room tinted blue and taking off one boot to touch my winter virgin […]