CLIPS

Journalism

Click image to view PDF of A Tree Grows in Salem: The Return of the American Chestnut. — Click image to view PDF of *A Tree Grows in Salem: The Return of the American Chestnut.*

Click image to view PDF of Kelp: The Gateway Vegetable. — Click image to view PDF of *Kelp: The Gateway Vegetable.*

Click image to view PDF of Community Plates. — Click image to view PDF of *Community Plates.*

Click image to view PDF of Blue Earth Compost. — Click image to view PDF of *Blue Earth Compost*.

Click image to view PDF of The Faces of Prek Toal. — Click image to view PDF of *The Faces of Prek Toal*.

Click image to view PDF of Mary the Queen. — Click image to view PDF of *Mary the Queen*.

Podcasts

Click image to listen to me talk about food, culture, and sustainability at sea on the Tasty Grinds Podcast! — Click image to listen to me talk about food, culture, and sustainability at sea on the *Tasty Grinds* Podcast!

Fiction

Click on the image to download and listen to the Audible production of my short story, I'm Here, That's All. — Click on the image to download and listen to the Audible production of my short story, *I'm Here, That's All.*

Click on the image to read my short story "Recipe for a Hunger Strike," based on this stock photo challenge provided by JR Walsh and published by the fabulous Out of Stock. — Click on the image to read my short story "Recipe for a Hunger Strike," based on this stock photo challenge provided by JR Walsh and published by the fabulous *Out of Stock*.

Essays

Click image to read my essay “Bean Soup,” a Covid-19 dispatch on the foods that connect us.

Includes my essay, The Guest Room, published August 2017. Available on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and at your local bookstore. — Includes my essay, *The Guest Room*, published August 2017. Available on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and at your local bookstore.

Losing Jason, by Sayzie Koldys

On June 7, 1984, seven-year-old Louis Anthony Mackerley arrived home from school to a babysitter. His mother was in the hospital, and his father, an Allentown manufacturing laborer, was at work. Louis informed the sitter that he was going to visit a friend down the street. Anyone watching would have seen a small boy step from the apartment clad in long, blue pants, a green striped shirt, and brown shoes. If you looked closely, you may have noticed his pink socks, the boyish auburn hair, or the rounded almonds of his eyes. You may have seen him step into the street, even heard the taunts of the other school children as he slipped into a hot dog shop to escape them. It’s possible that you may have seen him leave that same shop, minutes later, in an attempt to resume his journey. But, it seems, no one saw Louis Mackerley after that. Not ever again.

These details may have had little relevance to my life, to my family, were it not for Louis’s photograph on a milk carton, his face a dead ringer for my brother’s...

*Please click the title above to read the rest of this essay.

I Searched for the Stranger Who Changed My Life Only to Find His Obituary, by Sayzie Koldys

I was a seasonal employee in Glacier National Park when I met Kelly Tufo. Kelly was a tourist who'd come seeking peace for his broken heart. I needed to leave to heal my own wounds, but I had neither the will nor the money. I'd quit my job as a cook, but the property manager was a friend, so she allowed me to stay on in my cabin. Kelly was tenting indefinitely in the campground next door. We were both in limbo...

*Originally published on SheKnows website (link no longer functional). Another form of the essay appears in the Chicken Soup for the Soul volume pictured above.

Ocean Highlights

*Links to articles (through the article titles) are no longer functional. Some are available in PDF of the original text by clicking the images. See below if interested in short-form work designed to engage youth in ocean-related content.

Literally Just 50+ Photos of Beautiful Sea Slugs, the Beyoncés of the Sea