Molly Fisk: The People’s Republic
Even when we don't think so, humans are constantly making up stories and reasons to fill in what we don't already know.
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Molly Fisk: 6 Point Arena
It’s moving to me in this sometimes cold world to be reminded that strangers can come together so effortlessly.
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Molly Fisk: Candlelight
I hope some time you’ll get a chance to see 200 candles stretched over three city blocks. The faces of the people who carried them were lit from below, haloed in reverse.
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Molly Fisk: World Peace
World peace could be achieved by more people using their turn signals. In 30 years, children all over the world — a kinder, more peaceful world — will thank you.
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Molly Fisk: Not Precisely the Right Word
My friends and I are of a certain age, which means that a) we forget things, and b) we don't jump to our phones to look up what we've forgotten. We're of the generation that still likes the meandering conversational process of trying to figure out what the word was.
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Molly Fisk: I Have No Parents
This year, I feel as though winter isn’t just one in a comforting circle of seasons, to be followed by spring and then summer again. I’m getting the creepy feeling that my life is heading into its winter, and in the metaphor of a life, you only get one round.
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Molly Fisk: Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Have you ever said “no” when someone asked for a hug? It's not that easy. Our culture pressures us in so many ways to go along and not rock the boat.
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Molly Fisk: Oregon Creek
A small creek joins the river here and a rope swing hangs over the bank. I sat listening to the sound for a while, and then wrote a poem about it, mentioning God, which is strange, since I'm a lapsed Unitarian and don't believe in God.
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Molly Fisk: My Own Special Kind of Hysterics
It opens that creaking door to old age and death. First a tooth, then pretty soon I won’t be able to drive at night or walk into town on my own two feet.
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Molly Fisk: Counter-tops
I’m going to remind myself why we’re having the party in the first place: to appreciate all the women who work for a non-profit where I volunteer. It’s about love and gratitude. Two of the very, very few things worth cleaning the counter-tops for.
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Avoiding Capitalism 101
Every now and then, as a person might need to binge on horrible junk food like Twinkies or Velveeta, my mind craves a break from the real world. . .Every now and then, I sit around the house like a sloth and read mail-order catalogs.
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Molly Fisk: That We Are Helpless
How do I talk about fire when it's this bad and there are so many, some with lines holding them back and some uncontained, roaring through neighborhoods and wineries, schoolyards, even Trader Joe's?
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Molly Fisk: Young Men
I have some other young men in my life: a poetry student with whom I drink coffee, a godson, my ex-boyfriend's nephews. It's really fun to talk to them, they're so jazzed about life.
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Molly Fisk: Be Joyful Though You Have Considered All the Facts
“I wonder if I'll ever lose any weight?” Then I think, “Who knows?!?” and look at the clouds again. There's no point in ruining a beautiful cool relaxing invigorating refreshing and fabulous swim by thinking about your weight.
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Molly Fisk: Boomer Childlessness
Now that I'm in my 60s, there's talk about what will happen to Baby Boomers with no families to take care of them at the end of life. This is a bit crazy-making, reinforcing the cultural myth that we should have had children in the first place.
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