Essays
Essay: Under the street light in February
By Jan Worth-Nelson Feb 2010
Walking out to the dark parking lot after yoga tonight, it's an intensely surreal moment.I saw my old red car waiting for me under the lights, the old car I leeched from my last marriage...
Essay: I think I’m beginning to understand
By Jan Worth-Nelson Feb 2010
I think I'm beginning to understand that life is simply like this— cycles of worry and doubt and disappointment punctuated by the considerable pleasures of daily life. It's just the way it...Essay: So much for my dream of professoriate
By Jan Worth-Nelson Feb 2010
When I was a freshman in college at Miami University in Ohio, I rushed a sorority and joined it — Delta Delta Delta — eventhough I didn't really "believe in" sororities, and often made fun of...Essay: The bread gun or you can raise a pacifist
By Jan Worth-Nelson Jan 2010
I was at the optometrist's office on an ordinary Tuesday morning waiting to get an errant lens put back in my glasses, and I ran into a man I know from work who was talking about his kids and...Essay: Duende such a common word
By Jan Worth-Nelson Dec 2007
So, Gary Custer made me take a reference to "duende," out of my latest East Village Magazine column draft. He said he didn't know what it was and my husband, kibbutzing in the background, said...Essay: Breakfast at Bishop
By Jan Worth-Nelson Dec 2007
After a month together, a luxury for us in our conjugal cross-country life, Ted and I had to say goodbye this morning, probably our one hundredth "goodbye" at Bishop Airport. We know that sweet...Essay: Good reading: "Figured Dark"
By Jan Worth-Nelson Dec 2007
What a pleasure, this cool winter Saturday morning after a week of awful world news, the assassination of Bhutto dominating everything, to take up a book of good strong poems and a cup of strong...Essay: Happy birthday to my sister
By Jan Worth-Nelson Dec 2007
She was born at 4:27 p.m. this day in 1939. She repeats that detail today in our phone conversation. Her birth came at the end of one of the worst years in the 20th century, yet she represented the...Flickr Photos