THE DEEP END

More than once in the past year, a woman has pulled me aside and asked if I’ve experienced, you know … dreams ? I can tell by the hushed...

I never know what’ll go down on Tuesday nights, but it usually leaves my jaw scraping the floor for some reason or another. I love these...

I signed up for two months. I stayed for one. I expected to be surrounded at the sanctuary by mostly scientists and biology grad...

Photo: Taylor Johnson Mae Doom wraps the bottom half of her trunk around something greenish from between the flattened, harvested corn...

The place, Phuket, Thailand. The date, November 13, 2023. We’re in the back of a passenger van and for someone who hardly gets motion...

Between the lunges and warrior twos, one question rolled around in my mind all sixty minutes of class. So I furled up my mat, put the...

It’s no secret that New Mexico is full of friendly, easy-to-talk to people. Almost everywhere I go, it’s like butter to strike up a...

The thing about shimmering lands like New Mexico—where everything feels so flowy and natural and clear around you—is that it also...

You want to get my attention, put anything with Amy Poehler on it in front of me.  Pretty much never have I watched her and not cackled. ...

"Your new life is gonna cost you your old one." I forget if it was around the time of a full moon or another supercharged energy portal...

“I mean, what we just did in there … we were never taught that in school.” Sweat dripped down my stomach as I took another glug of water,...

Well hello, world. It’s so lovely to be back after a while. If I told you that for the past few months, I’ve been head down, doggedly...

There’s a scene in the original Toy Story film where the troublemaker kid, Sid, positions a magnifying glass in the sunlight over Woody’s...

I played the video three times from the palm of my hand, listening to a voice tell me in twenty seconds how the strongest trees in the...

Please sit still and stop quivering for just five minutes, I instructed my insides. On a sunny summer day, I sat facing the sparkling...

The elephants have entered the room. And there’s nothing awkward about it. I’m back stateside from a two-week stint in Thailand where my...

“But what are they gonna think?!” ← the phrase that (still) runs through my head about twenty times a day. It can even make my fingers...

Sirens wailing. Leaf blowers roaring. Endless honking. Tree trimmer trucks. Jackhammers. Lawn mowers. The beep-beep-beep of Amazon vans...

Stuck in gridlocked traffic, my eyes were glued to the GPS. Ten, 20 then 30 minutes creeped onto my estimated arrival time. Accident...

I’ve heard the sage advice to never hit publish when you’re angry. So I compromised with myself, saying, okay self. You get to write what...