Author Archive: Claudia Hinz

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Downton Abbey On Repeat

Downton Abbey On Repeat

No one is allowed inside the veterinarian office due to state regulations during the pandemic. The parking lot is full. Car hatchbacks swung up to the sky, doors left open, a stray foot extended into a spot of late-afternoon sun. Because it’s hot many keep their doors closed, the cars running. We are waiting for […]

September 26, 2020 | By | 1 Reply More
Letter to My Parents in Quarantine, 3,000 miles away

Letter to My Parents in Quarantine, 3,000 miles away

Dear Mom and Dad, How are you holding up? This afternoon? This hour? Today is a good day for me. I am reading wonderful writers who are tuning into the small things in this new reality: Karen Russell, Maggie Nelson. Also, listening to George Saunders read his letter to his creative writing student about the […]

April 15, 2020 | By | Reply More
Letters To Ourselves

Letters To Ourselves

My mother sits at the kitchen table, her hat and boots still on, her chair dragged at an awkward angle to the corner of the table so that she has to reach to write her letter. We have just returned from a shopping outing, the first time we have gone shopping together in years. She […]

November 26, 2019 | By | 10 Replies More