The Written Word

The House Remembers by Steve Lutz The first thing you learn when attempting to understand an old house you are fixing up, is that age is relative, relative to the framing, the plumbing, the electrical system, relative to the times and people who lived there. Things are added and things are taken away. My old [...]

You Can’t Get Sick Now, Gloria by Sue Hartman Somewhere along North Blue Flats on the recently washed-out road to Cathedral Valley, Ward Roylance gestured at the standing water in the gully.  We bounced over rocks spread by the flash flood.   “This isn’t  bad.  We can ford it.  I saw it  worse once.   We got [...]

Edge of Time By A. J. Martine As a small child growing up in rural southwestern Colorado I had no idea where the Colorado Plateau was located.  I had never heard of Major Powell.  I knew that the landscape around my grade school and our ranch was cut by flat mesas and narrow valleys and [...]

Bone: Seasons in True Wilderness by Mary Sojourner 1. Pure Gold How will you know your real friends? Pain is as dear to them as life. A friend is like gold. Trouble is like fire. Pure gold delights in the fire. — Rumi, from Mathnawi My skeleton has become my prison. A cage of bone [...]