Category Archives: Bunja Sako

Being a biped

I get up quite early in the morning- I always have. The mystery and quiet of the darkness at dawn has ever held me in its thrall. Lately, I have used this time to watch the flickering images of a video on my computer monitor: making her steady, but teetery, progress down a Brooklyn sidewalk, [...]

“Then give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.”

Gertrude Gill Every child needs one person who always has time for him or her. For me, that person was my mother’s mother, Gertrude Gill. I can state unequivocally that I inherited two things from my grandmother. First, I’ve got her feet. MY feet, literally, stand me in good stead. They hold me upright and [...]