Many Miles: Coming Soon from Harbor Editions
Many Miles is a meditation on grief, a love letter to a lost brother. Using automotive technology as an interpretive lens, Rosa Sophia Godshall reflects on childhood dysfunction and her own […]
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Village of North Palm Beach: A History
Join me on Thursday, January 20, at 3:00 PM for a virtual presentation on local history. I’ll be sharing some of my favorite elements of North Palm Beach history! Click […]
Take This Transmission for Instance
In my very first lit class at FIU last year, I told fellow students I had never taken a lit class before. Someone asked me how I managed to get […]
Remember yourself
As a child, I told anyone who would listen that I was a writer, and one day, I would be published. I was quite firm about this, and I refused […]
The Beast and The Jeep
My pain attack hit a 10 on the pain scale, and my first instinct was to climb into the back of my dad’s Jeep in the garage. I let my […]
TN, Or: The Time I Wanted to Pull All My Teeth Out
Trigeminal neuralgia feels like a special kind of hell. It’s hard to find any other way of describing it, though I’ve tried, and I’ve certainly written novels and stories where […]
Seeking Divine Love
Over the last few weeks, I had an unusual experience that led me to once again think deeply about the relationships humans share with one another. In late 1981, my […]
At the crossroads with a Teacher
The Bhagavad Gita teaches that death and rebirth (reincarnation) are both certainties, and so one should not grieve. Rejecting grief is something I’m not sure anyone can do, as it’s […]
“This way, Miles,” I said, smiling.
When a kid jumped from the top of Jupiter Lighthouse last week, all I could think about was my brother. A couple months after Miles and I had our picture […]
Life is but a dream
On this gloomy South Florida day, I’m thinking of a friend who’s close yet far away. I haven’t seen him in a few years. And he’s the only one who […]