OUR CATEGORY : Judy Walker

Hola Senor, Hola Senora

It’s all-inclusive in the Dominican: the piercing blue sky, the juicy green jungle, the lavish resort with facades painted peach and mint and buttery yellow— all built to relax and pamper while the maids push their carts down tile corridors, their bodies tight from hours of labour rewarded by a US dollar laid flat on […]

Rebuilding

The possibilities of loss didn’t include this uprooting, this stripping away and removing of bricks that once stood solid inside my walls and now, await rebuilding of home in a new land. Once I took for granted the knowing— the words I spoke, the songs I sang, the simplicity of cobblestones beneath my feet, but […]