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High Tea Essays
My friend Hope and I attempt to make a Carrot Cake, and – seemingly against all odds – we eat it too. Spring 2020.
An audio map of my backyard. "Then red ones inked up and that hunger/ Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots/ Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots." - Seamus Heaney, "Blackberry Picking"
Deep in George Eliot's novel Daniel Deronda is a letter whose themes reminded me of my Grandmother Ruth. I read the letter aloud to her, and that was just the beginning. This audio essay explores my journey through some reflections on the letter, memory, Alzheimer's, and storytelling. Spring 2020.