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Guatemala, Mi Amor: Day Two (The Return)

By on March 30, 2024

I watched the driver reach for the machete with his free hand as we careened across the InterAmerican Highway. With his hand clasping the wheel, he used the machete to push something unstuck. There we were, all the souls cast as involuntary dancers to the massive bumps and dips and momentum…


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Guatemala, Mi Amor: Day One, Phoenix to Mexico to Guate to Mayan Punishment

By on March 24, 2024

After much separation anxiety, I decided to leave my computer in my small apartment in Phoenix. For lack of a better term, I call Phoenix home. 

As a woman living alone, and just becoming more aware of her addiction to devices, I am in a long-term relationship with my computer….


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My Seven Places

By on March 2, 2024

There are actually big, sad, tragic events happening concurrently in hospitals inches from my breath, if air moves, and in zip codes I’ve never known except on the faith of my own imagination and the possibility that the cartographers didn’t lie. Russia is real. I’ll never go, probably. But…

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Ketchikan, Alaska

All you have to do to sell all of your things and move across the world is to do it.