In Ahab’s Wife, a few shipwrecked characters find themselves adrift at sea in a life boat eating  their dead to live, but blocking out the memory of the trauma. Victims of exposure to sun and salty air, their minds become blurred, and after rescue, they never spoke of what they had to do to survive, perhaps […]

Once upon a time, I thought I might try to be a lawyer. I found myself in the Houston District Attorney’s office pressing charges against a bad boyfriend, and I thought to myself, hey, this might not be a bad job to have. So, I took a pre-law type class that talked about some of […]