Non-Fiction Living

My Adventures As An Amateur Anthropologist In And Out Of My Apartment

Sunday, August 11, 2024

In Sympathy for the Passing of Your Estranged Father

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My father is dead.  I spend some time before he dies participating in a modern-day vigil. My sister texts me that our father is on hospice. ...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

The Spill

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I’m not telling anyone I said. He nodded. Some things should be kept between two people he said. And for a time, that’s just what I did. I k...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

That which stands tall, that which frays

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I have no exoskeleton. I have no bottom underneath. I remind myself of the helpers. Right on cue, one appears. The man understands instantly...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

1963

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The mother cradles the baby in white and yellow, green, black-gold, the sun rises warm red, a blue primrose nursery, newborn creatures tumbl...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

Everywhere is sacred but if it’s not there’s always someplace else

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Before you drop everything for the romance of the Pacific Crest Trail. Here’s a book about dirt and stink and calloused skin, of shriveled, ...
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Sunday, September 19, 2021

Music Lover

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Two thousand eighteen turned into two thousand nineteen and even a small slice of two thousand twenty. His average concert attendance was pr...
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Monday, September 6, 2021

Even The Locusts Wouldn’t

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It works its way under my clothes Traces my spine then spins around front  Finding every tiny paper cut and scrape Before pooling dark and s...
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