

Celebrating our Ninth Anniversary as COVID-19 Becomes Uncontainable
Today you’re the one with cold hands, beloved.
When did we switch places?
You left the stove on again this morning,
and I turned it off...


Boundaries, Connection, and Imperfect Karma in the Time of COVID
There is nothing like a migrating bird to remind you that distance is surmountable. The Whimbrel, in the Sandpiper family, humbles...


A Box Full of Darkness
Yet, the irony of all disturbances, big or small, is that they’re both unexpected and inevitable. Our lives are splattered with them...


No Room for Beige Tears
That discomfort you feel is the beginning of decentering your whiteness, decentering your privilege to move from judgement to empathy...


White on White
White Americans, we have to lose the starry-eyed reverence for our intrepid colonizing ancestors...


Crossing the Chasm
Extend your hand over the chasm and offer it to those willing to cross, but don’t move an inch in the other direction...


Parallelograms
Particle physics suggests that every time we’re faced with a decision, even the most trivial, the self divides and proceeds into both...


In the midst of all this, the birds carry on
Writing from Colorado’s front range at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, THP author Kayann Short must re-envision what “community”...


The Treehouse That Caught Me
The deer, fox, stars, mountains, water, and my ancestors have reassured me we will come through this moment as though it was a dream...


That Thing with Feathers: Hope and Literature in a Time of Pandemic
Back in Amsterdam, my son wondered if he might be the Netherlands’ patient zero...