Breast-feeding, cell-using driver charged

Do you remember when your newborn needed to be fed every two hours and, on the rare occasion that you left your house, those awkward moments when there wasn’t any suitable place in sight to do so? Maybe you were willing to do the bathroom stall thing. Perhaps you were one of the brave ones, whipping out your boob while standing in the checkout line. My back-up plan was always the car. I had to traipse back to the parking lot, but at least I could sit comfortably and listen to music. One woman took the idea of nursing in the car to an extreme. Sounds like a multi-tasker gone awry. Read more »

Volcano

I climbed a volcano today
to give you fire. Fearlessly
because the molten river crumbled
beside me, my rubber soles

immobile and melting over
hollow black rocks, my lungs burning
from the smoke pyre that billowed
out of the livid mountain core.

Over my shoulder, the sun set Read more »