Middling

Middling

I began teaching about the middle of the essay by accident even though I had been thinking about it for a long time.

The Fault Lines of Memory

The Fault Lines of Memory

I grew up in Northridge California, a place prone to big earthquakes. The San Andreas fault is a defining feature of California, and anyone who lives there, lives with the recognition that the ground can shift at any moment. What was certain one day can be completely changed in the next.

A Dash of Dash

A Dash of Dash

Punctuation began as a guide to reading aloud, akin to musical notation, indicating breath breaks and rhetorical shifts, differences in pitch: verbal stage directions. Punctuation as punctum.