There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.