CYNTHIA D. BERTELSEN

By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer Somehow, I managed to get through many years of schooling without ever cracking open a copy of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Fleeting references to it […]

Food is Life. I once stood on a busy street corner in Puebla, Mexico. A market day, a late October morning, battleship-gray skies overhead. I watched women – young, old, rich, poor―lugging string bags or baskets laden with food, hurrying home to cook almuerzo, lunch. I couldn’t get the thought out of my head: Food […]