Editorial
Hillbillies and Rednecks
Posted on June 30, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL Awhile back I quoted from a Wallace Stegner book I hunted down that consists of a collection of essays collected by his… Read More »
Silencing the Anthropo Scene
Posted on June 30, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL The hikers and campers are back, with that stunned look on their faces that says: it's so...BIG and empty....and....quiet, like, REALLY quiet.… Read More »
Mistress of Pentecost
Posted on June 30, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL Triangles are rarely healthy things when it comes to relationships. But trinities can be powerful forces. The most obvious being the Dad,… Read More »
Octoroon’s Moon
Posted on June 30, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL I can't sleep. I'm too tired to get up. So I stare at the moon and mourn my friend, 'the octoroon'. He… Read More »
A Rest as Good as a Change
Posted on June 30, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL Curiosity has taken me to many places. But just as often it's restlessness that jerks and shoves me around. Sometimes I make… Read More »
Sounds Good
Posted on May 24, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL While summer vacations flirt on the horizon for many, those of us who have made Val Marie home winding up for the… Read More »
Presence
Posted on May 24, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL The three of us stood outside the Nativity of the BVM in the harsh light and dry wind of the morning, staring… Read More »