Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?                                —Elizabeth Bishop, “Questions of Travel”        Something that …

       Day One:  June 16        I arrived at the front gate of the fort, as per the instructions in my acceptance letter. Fort William Henry is a curious anomaly, plunked-down amid …

 But sidewalks and those who use them are not passive beneficiaries of safety or helpless victims of danger. Sidewalks, their bordering uses, and their users, are active participants in the drama of …

       Because my mother has had a stroke, because my mother did not speak for a year, because she was temporarily paralyzed and now is in a wheelchair, because she had to relearn everything: how …

       I am alone in the nightclub’s kitchen when it happens, an industrial kitchen, all stainless steel: a wall of broilers across from me, a huge stove beside that, Friolator nearby, deep …