by Jason Smith | Apr 26, 2018 | Magazine Article
While my parents aren’t exactly back-to-the-earth types, they raised me to appreciate edible wild foods. When I was a kid, it was common to see them reading Stalking the Wild Asparagus or Mother Earth News while experimenting with staghorn sumac “lemonade” (delicious)...
by Jane Elder | Apr 26, 2018 | Magazine Article
I grew up on the shores of a small lake in southern Michigan. To this day, I can clearly recall the choir of natural voices, from the returning geese and red-winged blackbirds to the awakening frogs, heralding the arrival of spring. The marshy areas around the lake...
by Annette Grunseth | Feb 7, 2018 | Magazine Article
When you were three years old, I knocked on the men’s room door,and, taking your hand, opened the door cautiously. I’d never been in a men’s room before.Urinal against the wall, a small white cake of air freshener down in the porcelain,only one stall with a door,...
by Kathryn Gahl | Feb 7, 2018 | Magazine Article
Beneath the butcher-wrap paperlay Formica of gray with black flecks,and after my mother and her side-kick Anita finished wrapping T-bones, roundsteaks, sirloins, blade roasts and pot roasts,they lugged in a 20-gallon pail of ground chuck and slapped and laughed the...
by Mary Rowin | Feb 7, 2018 | Magazine Article
So tell your story, each version more distantand yet … still fresh, never finished. No matter whether death was suddenor a gradual decline, devastation wraps itself as a binding and timeis a geometry of fractals, repetitions smaller … smaller … an intricacy that never...
by Paulette Laufer | Feb 7, 2018 | Magazine Article
You need to remind the mind over and over againto come back to quiet, to the dark hollows of where words and no wordsare found, like hunting morels in a forest. Be patient. It’s not an easy task.The mind doesn’t want togo there.It would rather grab the handlebars of a...
