on spiraling toward the essential, in "Clean," a new essay for Woven Tale Press

What a blessing it is to work with Sandra Tyler at Woven Tale Press. She looks at every word, scours every sentence, asks, and asks with kindness. "Clean," my essay up today on her beautiful literary site, is so much better for having had her graceful interventions.

With thanks as well to Angelica Gonzalez—reliably kind.

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Seeking Refuge, Finding Perspective: my Inquirer piece on The Woodlands

The link to the whole story will go live tomorrow (and I will share it then), but after a long and sometimes painful week I am happy to find this story, with my photographs, in this Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer.

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