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Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

Way of Foot and Fist

The Best Experience of a Young Person’s Life What I heard college was supposed to be. Sleeping and Hiding What I did during the first five semesters of my college life. When it was snowing, and snowing seemed to be the default weather in Ithaca, New York, I would turn the heater to “suffocate,” draw [...]

A Ride Through Time

[Written August 5, 2011-September 27, 2011] For Ah-ma, an original woman warrior — may you rest in peace — January 20, 2012 I arrive at the Saint Louis airport after a red-eye flight that was too short to sleep and too long to stay up and read. I am here to give a seminar to [...]