Summer

"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, an

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

—Charles Bukowski

Smashed Eggplant Udon Noodles

Hetty McKinnon

This dish straddles the line between salad, and a warm bowl of noodles. Enjoy it as you wish. As written, the recipe is for a room temperature noodle salad. If you wish to eat it as a warm dish, simply warm the eggplant mixture in a pan and then add the drained noodles and gently toss at a low heat. Or thr

Royal Heart

Andrea Gibson

You will never be let down by anyone
more than you will be let down
by the one you love most in the world
it’s how gravity works
it’s why they call it “falling”
it’s why the truth is harder to tell
every year you have more to lose
but you can choose to bury your past
in the garden by the tulips
water it until it’s so a