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Monthly Archive for March, 2011

Essays: Goodnight, Moon  20 March 2011 When I was a teenager with my first car, a 1965 VW Beetle convertible, I’d sometimes drive home with no lights on late at night after being with friends. I’d start out legally enough to get across the bridges spanning the White Oak River between Swansboro and Cedar Point, but [...]

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  Oh, my. The numbness recedes and returns in irregular rhythms. Not like the predictable tides I grew up with on the coast, but like one’s forgetting of grief in a merciful after-tragedy sleep who then awakens to a moment of normalcy, to sunlight on the wall and the cat lying, as always, at the foot [...]

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