Why I Still Dream of Flying
By Meghan Currie
I just know there’s a jet pack with my name on it.
I’ve been thinking that thought for 40 years.
The space program, the only program on TV when I was a kid in 1969,
promised me, promised everyone, a jet pack. You know, something you
could strap to your back and [...]

Intersections of Life
By Meghan Currie
I don’t enjoy spending a lot of time thinking about what could have
been. I do it anyway.
I did it Saturday. I thought about how all of us move among ourselves.
All the pleasures and all the pain of life come from being connected
to each other. Not just sharing the same space at [...]

I loved spending days and nights at my grandmother’s house.
Not because she let my sister and I get away with much. And not
because she honestly thought food was the cure for everything. And
definitely not because she scrubbed too hard behind my little ears with a washcloth and Ivory soap before bed every night.
It was the [...]