Cynthia Kraack is an author of fiction and nonfiction including The High Cost of Flowers, winner Midwest Book Award, and 40 Thieves on Saipan.
I’ve been revising a story about a military drone designer’s gradual decision to leave his job. Themes of redemption play through the second half of the narrative. Rē’ dem(p)SH(e)n/ noun the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, … Continue reading →
There have always been divisions in this large nation. What do we remember on Memorial Day?
Continue reading →What we need on social media and television now are more baby goats in pajamas, more baby otters nursing from tiny bottles, ducklings climbing out of fountains. More emotional cowbells to cover Washington D.C.
Continue reading →March 4, 2017, sixty-nine years after Aldo Leopold penned his final contribution to A Sand County Almanac, a marathon reading of his work begins in a small building called The Schoolhouse in the Clearings Folk School in Door County, Wisconsin.
Continue reading →Visiting Washington, D.C. can startle me.The art galleries are filled with portraits of the privileged. The memorials and national museums tell the stories of the rest of us.
Continue reading →While our departing President challenges us to continue to hope, his words are tempered by the reality of the world where there is a whole lot of hostility and inequality.Will Minnesota Cold become my reality?
Continue reading →The future promises only its best on this night and the past reminds us of what was good. There is joy.
Continue reading →Urban shoppers might walk away from farmers’ markets in the rural area where I grew up. There’s nothing exotic among the produce displayed. Tomatoes look like those ripening on a backyard vine. A dozen green peppers, as many red, and … Continue reading →
Adriana introduced the Shim Sham Shimmy to our class at Dancin’ on the Door studio while I was away. A fellow dancer found floor space to bust a move from the recent lesson as she waited tables at the restaurant where we had dinner. I was nervous about matching the speed of her steps.
Continue reading →Sunday mornings have their own vibe, a crazy mash-up of past traditions, leisure, family time, friends time, me time, maybe spiritual time.
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