There’s a spider in the room; what do you do? I move carefully and don’t scare it. I get a glass (I’ve had to use a wide-mouth canning jar a couple of times) and then I put the glass down quickly and ...
“All water has a perfect memory,” Toni Morrison once wrote, “and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” So often the way we write about floods characterizes the water as encroaching upon the ...