Fiction, Essay, Photography … Sometimes Vampires
I am 18 days away from my due date, and according to doctors my baby is head-down, getting ready for birth. We're healthy! I'd like to tell every smug weirdo who has ever been unpleasant about my 20-year vegetarianism that my blood pressure has consistently been 120-over-80 for this pregnancy, but actually, I don't care… Continue reading Last Chance Before Life Change
How I Spent My Summer Vacation My summer was split between Being Pregnant But Not Letting People Know (too soon), and then Being Pregnant And Having People Know. At work, sometimes I hauled boxes of yoga mats around, or taught kiddos lessons in a community garden. When I didn't teach in the garden, I prepped… Continue reading Three Months of Life
No filter! These leaves REALLY are this red! I know all about having a sweet tooth, and cravings. Here were our options for trick-or-treaters: candy, or a Pokemon Boo-ster pack: Adults get treats in our household, too: Safe to say, I think about sweets a lot. I guess it doesn't help that this song is… Continue reading Treats and Beauty
Trinity Church Cemetery, Swedesboro NJ I've been stitching this wasp; since the dead heat months of summer I've been thinking about wasps, hornets, stingers, venom, vengeance, and more. Something about the Scorpion season helps me dig deeper into this: Also thinking about the Queen of Swords from the tarot deck: We are hitting peak leaf… Continue reading Embracing Scorpio Season
--OR-- Edna St. Vincent Mall-AI For the last month I've been ecstatically devouring Nancy Milford's extensive biography of poet and performer Edna St. Vincent Millay. "Vincent" led a life that was full of delicious intrigue, passionate love letters, writing poems in bed, and other ways to burn the candle at both ends. Milford is an… Continue reading AI turns poetry into PURE HORROR!
Laura Eppinger 