My parents wouldn’t have approved of the way I tossed my yellow bicycle down the embankment of the farmer’s Highline canal. I scrambled down the steep slope after it, stepping around slick, dried-smooth stalks of thrush and somber-gold cattail carcasses. The opening chords of spring exhaled perfect days for riding the smooth, compacted floor of […]

Calf brains scrambled with eggs were a traditional Easter morning meal at my grandparent’s house. I only ate it once, not knowing what I chewed and swallowed until the dishes were cleared away.

We spent many Easters with family, travelling up and down western Colorado’s U.S. Highway 50. My mother packed floral dresses for […]