In the line of fire

Do you open a window?

Photo by Matt Howard on Unsplash

The Mountain of my youth, my first and most significant home, went up in flames, as the Bridge Fire raged across the Angeles National Forest this week.

I have feelings about this I’m not yet ready to talk about.

I wouldn’t have written Forager if my mother hadn’t been dying. I couldn’t have looked out that window if I hadn…