Lasting Memories of Home
​and Horror Through Scents
​Chicago Review of Books

If Lucia Berlin’s life could be distilled into perfume, it would open with the heady rush of lilacs in bloom. Welcome Home, the unfinished memoir in the pair of latest collections to be published since the writer’s death in 2004, is accompanied by snapshots and letters to form a rough map of Berlin’s first thirty-odd years. READ.

Wild Beauty Tamed Long Ago
​by a Boston Brahmin
The Boston Sunday Globe

An hour’s drive north of Santa Fe lies Ghost Ranch, the land known as Georgia O’Keeffe Country. Here the artist lived out the second half of her life and painted some of her most groundbreaking work, introducing the art galleries on the East Coast to the beauty of her faraway desert. The bustling dude ranch where O’Keeffe made her home in 1946 . . . READ.

things in the godfather that make me weep
SEPT. 30, 2019

First you must understand that I never had a chance. As a girl, I was given an old jewelry box of my grandmother’s, which wound up in the back with a brass handle and played “Speak Softly, Love”—a song composed in 1972, known then simply as, “Love Theme from The Godfather.” READ.

more than surface:
excerpt from HxN
MAY 13, 2019

My brother the geologist shuffles in his sandals to kneel on the earth. He sifts some of it into his cupped hands, lifting the white sand to his mouth to taste. “Salty,” he notes, marveling. The White Sands National Monument is a gypsum field, an assemblage of bone . . . READ.

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