“What do you miss most about Thailand?” I ask Lek as we drive home from campus one afternoon. The quiet moments in the long drive to my daughter’s high school keep me peppering our guest with questions of his homeland. We talk about similarities and differences between the schools in Vermont versus his school in […]
Pigs on the beach
Pigs on the Beach By Sarah Ward, July 2007 Eighteen years ago our friendship bloomed. Her open mind and laissez faire ways so opposite to mine She pried me open with her smile, filling my empty spaces with gentle reassurance; quieting my anxieties, acknowledging my nightmares. Our hearts broke when I left Alaska, but she […]
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