The Woman Who Could Taste Everything: A Modern Fairy Tale
All the best stories begin with an ordinary moment that turns out not to be ordinary at all. This one begins with an orange.
Stories
A Fairy Tale: The Listening Tree
A story of when the distance between a told thing and an untold thing was believed to matter enormously.
The Fullness of Stone: A Fairy Tale of What is Needed
A story older than its telling...
Maria do Espirito Santo Ferreira Rezendes (1895–1963)
An Azorean Life Remembered
A Folktale of the Dolomites and the Origin of Edelweiss
This story explains the origins of the edelweiss flower and why the Dolomite peaks are so hauntingly bare.
Emalyn Smith Burney: An Endling
can’t go on. I’ll go on. — Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air Emalyn first came to my attention in a sensational newspaper article from the Berlin News Records, April 26, 1913 (now Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada): He Died Again but Shock Killed his Grandmother Butte, California, April 26, 1913