Native Places

Evelyn

An Epiphany at the Loading Dock The buildings on the campus where I teach stand in a picturesque…

Folding Napkins I wash and fold about 12 napkins a week. Some of them are batik from Indonesia. My…

Fried Chicken Backs

Mrs. Garringer’s Field

Leaving the Porch Light On

Sailing Alone Around the World 

A Very Large Array The road to the Very Large Array goes past the Ponderosa restaurant in Magdalena…

A Fire on the Hearth

Big Bin

The Bear Lady

Moth The poet Baudelaire thought that genius was the ability to revisit childhood at will. Grammy…

Small Fires and Milk My classmates had summer jobs in architects’ offices, but I worked for a…

Pawpaw The pawpaw is native to the East Coast and has the largest edible fruit of any native…

Lost in Translation Our beloved cat Sammy couldn’t leave the old neighborhood. When we moved a…

Wanstead Flats