Father and Daughter and Water Dad nearly drowned in the mouth of the river at Fort Bragg, California, but that was before I was born. He spent the rest of the summer in the hospital, but that didn’t stop him from loving the ocean and water. You can’t trust it, he said, you can’t help …
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The First Weirdo I Met in Oregon
Getting to know a friend through her art: A look at Mary Aday a.k.a Mefore Aday, THRU Gallery’s Debut Art Exhibit When Mary Aday first moved to Portland from the South in 2005, a few of her new classmates at Oregon College of Art and Craft would ask her to repeat: Bright. White. Light. In …
What I See in Thawed City Streets
Written as an account of an actual walk through the streets of Portland this January 9, after a single day of non-freezing snow-melting weather — one of Portland’s iciest weeks on record. Portland is back to usual tonight. The rain is steady and the smell of donuts moves like an invisible steam through the streets. …
Modernbody
Rethinking Happily Ever After After putting a good dent in my laundry pile, after making up the futon and folding quilts, after swiffering the linoleum, baby wipes on a cold, well-used kitchen floor, after sweeping out the foyer, splinterings of kindling and old oak leaves and dust billowing out the front of our house, I …
Womanbody
Illustration by Jen Scholten I want to be a mother. Want to harness life inside of my own body. Want to validate and make use of this healthy hearty womanbody that I have. See I always thought I’d have that baby by now. But I’ve discarded two lives by the ingestion of two pills taken …