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Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender
The Cosmopolitan is the most hypocritical of cocktails. All Juicy Couture, with magenta sequins on the hip pocket and a heart over the "i," it is in reality a stealthy, dark, sleek, long-range, off-the-radar…
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A Bloomsday Note: I visit James Joyce’s grave with Craig Arnold (by Jill Alexander Essbaum)
Statue of James Joyce at his grave in Zurich A favorite memory from Switzerland. Craig and Robin come to visit me. We share a picnic of cheese and cherries and bread in the park…
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OCHO: The Travel Issue [Emma Trelles]
These poems trip through Afghanistan, Tokyo, and Mozambique. These poems journey with turtledoves, trout, the pages of a book and a soldier on leave. Poems that shop, bush walk, slumber in utero, visit with Jesus,…
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Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender
The problem with Latin is that it sounds all egg-heady. Cocktails, which could conceivably both have eggs in them and go to your head, nonetheless rarely have egg-heady names. Would you raise a Pulchritude…
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Garden Update (by Laura Orem)
Here's the latest picture of my garden as it progresses. We've been having great growing weather – lots of sunshine during the day, rain in the late afternoon and evening. The thing with the…
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Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender
“Drill, baby, drill” is to slogans as Bull’s Blood is to wine and “subprime” is to finance. A risky proposition. Duh. It says so right there in the name. Who would care—or dare—to drink…
