Newcomers are not entertained. This notion will dawn on you gracelessly when the Tony Hawk decal on your deck beckons…wheezing laughter….
Gender Rolls: An Academic How-to-Skate Guide for Girls by Lexi Castiglione
Winter from a Second Floor Window by Casey Gentry Quinn
Some hills are harder to sled than others. A slope is needed. Some snow is important.
Onslaught by Kami Westhoff
My mother lost the tip of her finger to the cutting lip of a drill bit when she was six.
A Note is Passed by Jodi Sh. Doff
Written in ink, on a piece of lined paper, ripped out of a spiral notebook, folded seven times, tucked twice into itself, the way we all did in junior high….
The Paddle by Alan N. Yount
My father, in his construction worker dark blue pants and shirt, bends over the bandsaw, shaping a block of pine into a paddle….
Review: The Year of No Summer: A Reckoning by Rachel Lebowitz
This is not a collection of stories, essays or fairy tales, though it has elements of all three.
Review: The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
Trauma Cleaner is part-memoir, part-biography, all character study.
Review: When We Were Ghouls by Amy E. Wallen
The slow, marked, deliberate pace of this memoir is a gift.
Body by Andrea Tate
“Body” is baby-blue hand-knit blanket. She is female. She is a member of the family just like the dog.
The Good Creche by Anne Moul
We were staunch Episcopalians, so church and nativity scenes were at the center of our celebration.
