“There are images in here, gestures of love, and its hard conversations, that a reader will remember forever.”
-Rick Bass, author of For a Little While
Shedding
We don’t need the four-bedroom house we’ve lived in for the past six years. My eldest son is living abroad. That leaves me and his sixteen-year-old brother at home. Time to downsize, simplify. But it doesn’t make sense to move. It would be cheaper to stay in our home with its high-ceilings, sunny rooms andContinue reading Shedding
This Birthday
In my country on our birthdays, we receive presents from the people we love. In the country where my son was born they celebrate birthdays in a different way. His cousins and grandmother and neighbors take food to the temple to offer to the monks so that the people they love who have died willContinue reading This Birthday
Catharine H. Murray 