• Ice encases trees on the shores of Lake Superior

    Haunted Season: a note from pandemic winter

    Winter is for hauntings. It is the season of candle light and barely days and long, cold nights. A dark sky spits snow and trees dance in the wind like spirits, clattering on the roof…

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  • Ripples in a Michigan Lake hold sunset light

    New year: a note from pandemic winter

    A year ago, we poured a bottle of cheap champagne off a balcony in Berlin. On a shoestring budget, the bottle was completely undrinkable, somehow all too sour and too sweet and too bubbly. We…

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  • Detail of an Armenian Monastery, Noravank

    Thicker Gravities: on my year in Armenia

    Seda met me in the muddy road of a village near Armenia’s capital, Yerevan. She spoke and I blinked back at her, 23 and wide-eyed. Seda laughed and whipped out Google Translate and her high…

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