Finally, the bitter cold eased enough so I could leave the farm. After a long lunch with a friend, I decided to go to Ulta, a woman’s toy store full…
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Every winter, I long for the cozy feeling of snow coasting through the air to the ground, everything covered in white, like the glowing clothes they say Jesus wears. Sometimes…
“I’m Katherine Andraski, Kingston Township” so began my three-minute speeches before the county board arguing for limits to electrical generating plants on prime farmland. I stood at the podium because…
The other morning I woke from a dream about a place I’d been before, with tall, frightening mountains. We boarded a bus with five rows of seats. I’d been talking…
Finally, finally the tears blew out of me into sobbing in the barn, the cats waiting impatiently for me to leave, Morgen quietly munching her hay. The light softening the…
I’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Thank you for sitting with me as I’ve told you my stories this year. The following is what I imagine it…
When I step into these dark nights, I admire how Orion throws a thigh over the barn roof, our place dark but all around a ring of lights, neighbors I…
Combines dance, hand to shoulder, waltzing with grain carts big as houses through fields, their song like water pouring. They hand their grain to semis to haul to bins that…
The grief sat like a bubble in my chest, stuck, not working it’s way out in tears. They came with great heaves when I sat on my rock in the…