What movies about time travel are really about
Sci-fi has never been my genre - especially if it involves space and time travel (or worse, aliens dripping with
...to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be..." Joan Didion
When I was nine, I felt frustrated by the adults around me, who seemed to have forgotten that they had
Paper cranes
I like to do something with my hands when I'm talking on the phone or when I'
After poems
The poet, Safia Elhillo, wrote a craft essay on Catapult Magazine (back when it was still a magazine) about turning
What female killer whales teach me about being a 48 year-old woman
I was very fortunate to enjoy all three of my pregnancies. Growing children inside my body introduced me to the
On silkworms and butterflies
Correspondence with Mr. K has been taken back up again, like a forgotten piece of knitting one returns to. And
Influencers
My favorite subject in school was always English, so unsurprisingly, my favorite teachers have been English teachers. In 10th grade,
Return
For my graduate thesis in creative writing, I intended to write a travelogue about my first trip - as someone
This is for you.
I teach high school Creative Writing. The class is an elective - a voluntary English credit students take on top
Every year, my father gifts me a word
We always spend part of our Lunar New Year break staying at my parents' place, a 25-minute drive downtown
