by Carolyn M. Crane | Nov 7, 2018 | Essays, Health Care Reform, Series |
In the two and half years my husband Jack fought his cancers, we worked with over ten different doctors. Our journey began at the local hospital, circled to Stanford and up to UC Med in Sacramento, and then took an unlikely turn to Eureka, California. We spent many...
by Armida Cervantez | Jun 18, 2018 | Community, Essays |
How does a tree heal? I see sap pouring from her bark. Are those tears? We heard the screams one Sunday morning. The girlfriend asking in a violent shake, “Why?!” I see the leaves on the figure of stretching bark change, drop, and die. Is that her transformation? Did...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Feb 14, 2018 | Essays, Humor |
The annual nightmare began each Ash Wednesday, when I found myself another year further into the darkness of adolescence and agnosticism. Was it getting smeared with ashes that I dreaded, or was it the upcoming extra hours in this huge, stale box? I’d trudge up the...
by Janet Gardiner | Nov 16, 2017 | Essays |
Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays. Growing up in a huge Irish Catholic family, Thanksgiving dinner quickly turned into a raucous event with upwards of 20 cousins under the age of 18 scattered throughout my aunt Karen’s house. Karen, the...
by Armida Cervantez | Sep 28, 2017 | Abbey Country, Community, Essays |
It’s a windy autumn in the desert. There are no stands of evergreens or pines to break the force–only dust, dry and crumbly under feet and irritating sand in the eye. The first graders lined up with fortitude in this dust. We waited patiently for the...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Sep 22, 2017 | Essays |
Cancer is pretty much ubiquitous these days. Watch the commercials during any t.v. show if in doubt. We all know someone who has cancer, who’s died of cancer, who’s survived cancer. It hovers around us like—well—like a cancer. But it’s much different when it knocks on...
