I sat on the steps of a Venice canal, watching as happy lovers in gondolas slowly drifted past. In the most romantic city in the world, I was alone, and crying, in the rain. My honeymoon was not going as planned. After our wedding – after Dan and I promised to love each other in …
I hadn’t give a lot of thought to the politics of animal conservation before I went on safari in Tanzania, though when the news came out about Cecil the lion being shot by Walter James Palmer, a dentist from Minneapolis, I did think about the economics of what seems to me a barbarous solution to …
“I know we offered to pay you for your hard work, now how about you give us something extra for free because we’re cheap?”
Once upon a time I was one of those skinny black clad cyclist types who rolled uphill like a goddamn freight train. I was broke and angry and had an immeasurable supply of energy and everything was my bicycle. Now I’m much meatier and angry a lot less of the time and I’m not working …
It was windy and the flowers had fallen over. The note on the door said that the Wing Luke Museum, right behind me, would be collecting the notes and gifts left here, archiving them for the family. I didn’t know who the guy was or what had happened, only that it wasn’t that long ago …
Jeff Sandys was gently pulling each petal of a miniature dahlia and pasting it into a 10×10 grid. There’s a raffle and the winner who guessed the number of petals on this particular flower would win, “Oh, I don’t know, I think it’s 25 dollars,” Jeff said, waving his long hands. “Do you grow?” Jeff …