The Burning
TWO SHEEP PEERED OUT the window of a Tesla next to us, their woolly rumps bumping together each time the driver hit the gas. Cries rang out from the back seat Continue reading
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Don’t Fear the Fungus
DURING THE OPENING CREDITS of the hit HBO series The Last of Us, a river of slime mold wends its way through darkness, through bushy foliate jelly mushrooms, arboreal earth tongues, Continue reading
The Atomic Disease
I GREW UP IN THE NO NUKES ERA, first dragged to protests by my hippie parents, then attending by my own volition. If you’d asked me in the 1980s what I Continue reading
A Dispatch of Smoke
And indeed there will be time For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, Rubbing its back upon the windowpanes . . . — T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song Continue reading
Touch Grass
This essay was commissioned in partnership with L.L.Bean in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, and in support of L.L. Bean’s purpose: to inspire and enable people to experience the restorative Continue reading