Posts Tagged with: survival
By Elaine
Posted in - Life on December 1st, 2018
On July 19th, 2018, a violent thunderstorm descended on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri, unleashing six-foot waves that capsized a tourist boat. Seventeen people drowned. Tia Coleman was on that boat with 10 family …
Read More →
By Elaine
Posted in - Life on August 29th, 2018
Recently I spent an afternoon with a woman who had been introduced to me by a mutual friend. She had a naturally tanned face lined like a rural map, bright blue eyes, a long single …
Read More →
By Elaine
Posted in - Life on December 1st, 2016
This is a good time to talk about chaos and order. Chaos because we’re up to our eyeballs in it. Order because it’s never that far off.
By chaos, I don’t mean an imminent apocalypse due …
Read More →
By Elaine
Posted in - Life on July 2nd, 2016
The first time I became aware that my body could be broken in a way that left marks was when I was 8.
I was riding a bike that was too big for me. My mother …
Read More →