Like Kids Who Only Ever Get Socks

Friends, There Is Nothing Like Your Own Family To Make You Appreciate Strangers!

Downstream Is Always Someone Else's Up.

Fiction And Essays Can Create Empathy For The Theoretical Stranger.

A Wife Is The Earth Itself, Changing Hands, Bearing Scars.

I Live In Southern Appalachia, So I'm Surrounded By People Who Work Very Hard For Barely A Living Wage. It's Particularly Painful That People Are Working The Farms Their Parents And Grandparents Worked But Aren't Living Nearly As Well.