The cultural issues being addressed are how intergenerational knowledge is passed down between women and girls in the kitchen.
This article is a prequel to ongoing research into DIY Healing Within Ancestral Lands. A project born of growing up in a family system that was not kind, welcoming or loving.
When Whistles Melt into Beeps: Four Poems for AutoEthnographer Author’s Memo I approach poetry as a vessel to preserve the...
It recounts vignettes of my’s dad’s life, his final week, the deep bond with family and friends and the ease with which he let go of life.
This piece situates me in a set of sour in-laws relationships that also involved the legal system and it is in the form of autoethnography.
In Saying Goodbye: A Father's Last Minute Parting Gift to His Son, I channel the moments I remember from the night before my mother died.
is an essay about the way technology can intrude and obscure what may be our most important human experiences
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
In this 2nd of my Processing Parental Grief series, Calliandra receives a letter from her mother weeks after her death.
Narrating Estrangement is written by those who have decided to distance themselves from, or have been driven out by, their families.
"My parents drank wine with dinner every night. There’s nothing remarkable about that, but to a kid growing up in Mid-Missouri it was weird."
Through all of the things that separate us, there is one universal experience that transcends all barriers: love.
