Author Archives: janishaag

I play you for my college students whose parents might have boogied to your songs in their teen years, but these kids, Stevie, they don’t recognize the funky sounds of your keyboard, their bodies don’t automatically start to groove when … Continue reading →

I often stop myself when I start to write about my BFF because… it’s complicated. Not our adoration of each other—that’s simple. We have been best friends ever since, way back in the last century (the 1980s!), we met when … Continue reading →

wall/here was all you left behind on one bookshelf— two tiny magnetized words with no place to stick though, really, there was more: a handful of stray pills that got away and hid under the bed, under the rose rug … Continue reading →

The first I didn’t even see. I leave food for her several days a week. On the days I don’t, a former student of mine walks across the street from her apartment to the college and dishes out some wet … Continue reading →

For nearly three weeks we have ensconced ourselves on one of our favorite tropical islands (Kauai), which is every bit as lovely as it sounds. I could have, and perhaps should have, written a blog post every day about something … Continue reading →

On a hazy October afternoon that smells faintly of fall and fires raging less than a hundred miles away I step into my back yard and take up my small-bore hose— because there’s still no rain, though we’re all praying … Continue reading →