A post in our Milestones series from past contributor Kate Washington. From the meadow, we turn toward the rushing sound of Butte Creek, looking for carefully balanced rocks on the velvety forest floor. This cairn marks a rim trail we call the springs hike, not shown even on topo maps,…
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Read more » CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Jen Hirt. A milestone among headstones—at the dog shelter where I volunteer, I have now walked my 200th dog around a pet cemetery. The pet cemetery is unnamed, just a part of the shelter grounds, but it is intended for the public, not the…
Read more » CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Dick Allen. . . . . The word “mile” always evokes for me the last two lines of Robert Frost’s famous poem, “Stopping by Woods”:…
Read more » CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Paul Crenshaw. When my daughters watched Disney I always wondered how long Sleeping Beauty slept. How many days did those inside the castle worry, dry-washing their hands, before going on with their lives? Did they mark milestones, like how high…
Read more » CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Gregory Wolos. Also see Tweetsie Railroad and An Evening with Willie Freeze. Back in the 80s, Raymond Carver, whose work I long admired, read from his work to a rapt audience in the theater of the local university. Carver was a large man,…
Read more » 1 CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Michelle Donahue. There’s something momentous about turning twenty, about that young thrill of abandoning teenage-dom and adventuring into adulthood. The last day I was a teenager, felt like a day where I could reimagine and revise myself into…
Read more » CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Cal Freeman. “We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could Though harm should come of it…” - Robert Frost, from “The Exposed Nest” Late last…
Read more » 1 CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Rachel Lyon. As a child I could stand at the window for hours, watching the tugboats on the East River: small, squat, and strong. Pushing or pulling barges ten times their size, loaded with tons of freight: scrap metal, coal, subway cars. Your…
Read more » 1 CommentsA post in our Milestones series from past contributor Paul Hostovsky. In April, National Poetry Month, I celebrated 25 years of continuous sobriety. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. A drunk is an unlovely creature. I used to work as apprentice of sorts to the wino in the park. My job, you…
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