Review: Chiwan Choi’s Yellow House

Chiwan Choi’s The Yellow House (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2017) embraces us like a sad song for what is lost and left behind. The image of the Yellow House seems at times to represent the emotional weight of nostalgia, and at times the madness we inhabit, the place between here and there, between then and now,…

Review: Dragonfly Dreams, by Jennifer Chow

Dragonfly Dreams by Jennifer Chow is the story of a woman who dies giving birth and becomes a ghost to guide her daughter’s first years. Fresno, CA in the 1880 with the end of the gold rush and the beginning of the Transcontinental Rail Line serves as the historical backdrop for this multigenerational drama of…

Tradition of Female Hospitality in Douglas, WY

In a horse-training field, in Orin, WY, a family of women prepared for five months to welcome 440 guests. Drivers turned right at the Orin State Park and Rest Area, and entered the property where the Hegglund Sisters welcomed campers with broad smiles and rosy cheeks. The sisters come from a long line of women…