by Gabriella Herkert
Tricycle technique molds personality. I know it sounds crazy but I think it’s a theory with some merit. It’s actually my mother’s hypothesis. Granted, she’s the same person who suggested sticking my toe in a hollowed potato for blood poisoning and taught me to short sheet a bed. Her judgment has been questionable in the past. This time, though, I think she might actually have something.
I wish I could say that I have learned the secrets of the cosmic forces and that they are contained in the sacred text herein. That I am the universe’s librarian, staid keeper of the most cherished and occult records. That in my assortment of files is an atlas that lists the location of every sock that has vanished from every dryer in the world. With such a tool, you could restore balance and harmony to that wreck of mismatched socks that lie in wait for their mates to return from the unknown. If you’re like me, you are a truth-seeker; you want to know where your real family is, as you could never have come from the people you eat with during the holidays.
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Andrew Gifford of the Santa Fe Writers Project joined Richard Currey in January 2003 for a conversation about the writing life: “musical” composition, the genetic need for stories, Currey’s “holistic” view of literature’and superstition.
Comments (0)Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance is comprised of thirty-eight oral histories from a myriad of Haitian women. Jahaan Martin reviews the book with an eye towards history and story-telling. It’s a diverse walk through lives hardened, but not defeated. Click here for the review. (read on…)
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