My essay entitled “MINT” is up at The Rumpus. This essay was hard-earned, one I started writing a couple years ago. I got stuck in the middle and set it aside, but in the darkest month of my adult life (November 2013, to be exact), I figured out its ending and I sat down and finished writing it in one afternoon.
This is an essay that took everything out of me to write, and I am proud to have written it, and prouder still that I’m able to share it with my readers
There is also a recording of my reading the essay on the site. Some trivia: there is the sound of dog lapping water at the very end–that sound got caught on the recording, and I decided not to re-record. That’s Ziggy the Wiener Dog, about two weeks before he died.
And the above picture is the actual black and white dog in the actual mint patch referenced in MINT.
80,000 words 