You who live in Northern California, I have a question for you. You, who has lived under the smoke and listened for evacuation orders: what details do you remember from these last few weeks of the fires? Now, here’s another question for the Mama’s: Do you remember your baby’s infancy? What details do you remember? The …
I ran away. I did not lose my house. I was not in the mandatory evacuation zone. Yet, after 4 days in the smoke, living just miles away from the flames destroying my town, I left. I don’t wan’t to tell anyone that. Mine was not a story of heroism. But also, mine was not …
The phantom smell of smoke still tingles my nose as I take a deep breath and look out the window of my sister’s house. The Sierra Nevada’s rise like soldiers outside: lumbering, protecting. In order to escape the smoke from the fires, I drove my children for hours and hours today to arrive at my …