Author Archives: mkshort

For those prone to despair from reading the news, driving past big boxes and rectangles on stilts, overhearing the quotidian garble spewed from citizenry on sidewalks, or from mere looking around, awake, I’ve got some Tuesday morning inspiration sure to … Continue reading →

On long days inside I wonder, Behind all that matter(s), Is there a Fund of things With its mouth agape That we fall back into? Churned up, ingested by God, Do we satisfy? Or does the divine vomit, Bring up … Continue reading →

Last week I assumed no news meant bad news, which would have been okay. But earlier this week I received a phone call from Wake Forest announcing my acceptance to their master teacher fellows program. I begin a thirteen month … Continue reading →

A day is enough. Come Ten at night and I see a green banana on the counter labeled “Fresh.” No, don’t start, not now. But then I wake up to bird noise and my seedlings sunning by the window, content.  … Continue reading →

Think they’ll print it? Think it’s provocative enough for them?    Dear Adbusters, I won’t be renewing my subscription. I first gave you a serious look in 2009 while studying abroad in London, and you became a necessary aid to … Continue reading →

Still, I think I’m missing the mountains. No other fad can top the arrangement matter got itself into in the Permian. Not even war. In them, I can get lost, for their disruptive lumps, layers, dizzying topographies, razorback ridges, and … Continue reading →

                With space for three abreast, the trails feel more like logging roads, which they sometimes are. On them I can’t seem to get lost despite my trying the dead ends, which usually aren’t. Where the … Continue reading →

Sense of place is important to me, a necessary ingredient for health and an extension of my own self and existence in a particular region. But developing one becomes slow and tedious if interesting. Having lived in Durham for three … Continue reading →

Specialist, I’m not. But as avid dabbler, ideas leak like mercury–which sustains me heartily in romping five days a week with children, K-5th. This week we made trail-mix cookies, learned how to play kung-fu, made our own cartoon strips, solved … Continue reading →

To clarify, I highly recommend trying raw milk some time, if you can find it. (Go to a farm). Drink it whole; you’d be stupid to skim off those clumps of cream rather than savor them. As for language, it … Continue reading →