Archive - And Then The Flash

The Slow Brightening: On Aging, Time, and the Shape of a Good Life

I once imagined that life would eventually settle into certainty.

Apr 26 •

“No One Leaves Home Unless Home Is the Mouth of a Shark”

Borders, Exile, and the Violence of Migration Control

Apr 20 •

March 2025

A poem for this moment

Mar 7 •

February 2025

Interstate Memories: Shadows, Traces, and the Hunger for Time

Echoes, Absence, and What Remains

Feb 20 •

January 2025

Erasure and Resilience: Finding Direction in a Nation Gone Astray

“Never to get lost is not to live,” Rebecca Solnit writes in A Field Guide to Getting Lost.

Jan 26 •

The Art of Remembering: Stories We Tell and Shadows We Keep

Memory as truth, nostalgia, and the narratives we create.

Jan 19 •

An Evening with Margaret Atwood in San Miguel de Allende

Wit, Warnings, and What’s Next

Jan 15 •

The Weight of Small Things: Exploring the sacred in the ordinary.

A reflection on the LA fires & how to come back from loss of place

Jan 11 •

Support for Los Angeles Fire Victims

A resource list and ways to help

Jan 11 •

Both Sides Now: On Bucket Lists, Heroes, and Sober January

Reflections on music, mortality, and finding connection

Jan 6 •

On Desire, Curiosity, and the Rabbit Holes That Find Us

Contemplation of desire.

Jan 3 •

Darkness and Light in the Rise of Power: The Apprentice and In the Garden of Beasts

Nurturing Our Brightness in a Dark World

Jan 2 •

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