by Carolyn M. Crane | Aug 29, 2016 | Essays, Humor |
I’d never had surgery before, so I was uncertain what to expect when I walked through the doors of the Tahoe Forest Ambulatory Surgery complex in Truckee last week. It was 6 a.m. I was past being nervous at that point. I found myself determined, grateful, and open to...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jul 5, 2016 | Essays, Humor |
Growing up, gifts were important to us. We didn’t have much money; it was the thought that counted. My parents’ birthdays and Mother’s Day and Father’s day were particularly important. That’s where the liquid powder comes in. I was nine...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jun 19, 2016 | Back Yard Days, Friends of Bloody Run Creek, photographs |
Our pups, Bonnie and Hayduke, are about five months old now, and we’re starting to take them out in the world. This Father’s Day, Cassidy, Jack, Jesse and I drove down to nearby Bloody Run Creek, the nearest creek in our watershed, and they had their first...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jun 2, 2016 | Community, Essays |
I have known you for so long, many of you since you were three or four years old. I held a few of you as infants. In the early days, I washed your cuts and pushed you on the swings in the schoolyard. I dried your hands when you passed through the wash line before...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 11, 2016 | Essays, Reviews |
Commentary and review of the plays The Laramie Project, The Laramie Project Ten Years Later, and the film The Laramie Project. “Some things, only artists can do. Some things, only artists can do. And it’s our job.” Toni Morrison I didn’t want to read The Laramie...
