Months after one of the last worst school shootings ever, I dropped my children off at elementary school, and found I couldn’t leave. I had to keep vigil. My kids’ grandparents, their friends’ parents, their family, their teachers—for us, every school day requires routine, radical imagination and faith.

My story, “Vigil,” a flash nonfiction piece, originally appeared in Carve magazine, Winter, 2013.  Click here to read “Vigil” in .pdf.

I would love nothing more than never to post this again.