“Tilt!,” an essay I posted here some months ago, has been recently republished online as a part of an online exhibit at the International Museum of Women’s Imagining Ourselves Project. The International Museum of Women (IMOW) is a “museum without walls” which sponsors events and exhibits online. (Here’s a March,
Setting: Curbside at SFO (San Francisco International Airport). Time of day: Early afternoon on a Friday; prime time for high-roller weekend travellers. Characters: The self, the beloved, the bairn. Also: bystanders in line for curbside check-in. Motivation: Transfer all the paraphernalia out of the vehicle and into some kind of
Nearly two years ago, my beloved and I took our daughter, then ten months old, to the Alameda County fair. It was a hotter-than-July hot July day, not a fit day for anything but lizards to be out of doors. The temperatures in the Livermore Valley, which is sidled up