by Kim Bateman | Nov 21, 2016 | Essays, Philosophy, Psychology, Series |
Dis?honorable Deaths My call echoed in the room where my friend lay, unable to answer. He had cinched a belt around his neck and lowered himself to cut off the flow of oxygen to his brain. It may have been to see if it would intensify the sexual pleasure as he aroused...
by Carolyn Waggoner | Nov 13, 2016 | Fiction, Humor, Politics |
Such an event had never befallen our village. We were so remote, so peaceable, so good. Of course, we had heard of plagues, but they seem to have been generally a cataclysm of the past, wrought largely upon distant and deserving populations. So, imagine our wonder...
by Stephanie Hayes | Oct 31, 2016 | Essays, photographs, Series, Travel |
Part Three of Four: Five More Things I Learned on the Camino I recently returned from three weeks in Spain where I walked about 140 miles of the Camino de Santiago. That isn’t much compared to what a lot of people do. The whole route is 500 miles long, which takes...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Oct 12, 2016 | Essays, Humor |
I’ve always wanted to do it. But I’ve always been afraid to do it. We all have challenges we face fearlessly, and we all have issues that terrify us. One of the worst things we do to one another is ridicule one another because those issues differ from person to...
by Stephanie Hayes | Oct 9, 2016 | Essays, Series, Travel |
Along the Camino My friend and I have been traveling the Camino de Santiago for 11 days now, averaging 8-10 miles a day. We started in Leon and are currently in Portomarin. Here are 5 things I’ve learned so far: 1. I can get up at dawn every day and walk 8 or...
by Kim Bateman | Oct 4, 2016 | Essays, Philosophy, Psychology, Series |
Storyteller and psychologist Kim Bateman continues her series. The Uninvited Mourner For the last 26 years from May to October, Jack has been fishing the Truckee River in our backyard at least twice a week. He has been there in his waders in rushing spring run-off,...
