Sarah Silbert
Sarah Silbert lives and writes in Vermont. She teaches comparative religions and creative writing at Vermont Technical College.
— From September 2003
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Fighting In The Zendo
When the doctors told us Jeff was dying of leukemia, he and I began to fight. Jeff was twenty-nine, I was twenty-eight, and we’d been building a sixteen-by-twenty-four-foot timber-frame cabin on a small hill of hard ground in Vermont’s Green Mountains.
September 2003
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
The Rivers We Call Ourselves
At every step, the brook changes; it becomes deep or shallow, wide or narrow, silent and frozen or splashing over logs and stones. I see now that we are like that water, carving our experience into life’s terrain.
October 2001
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