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I am a writer based in New Jersey. I have a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a Master’s degree from the University of Toronto. I have experience as a German to English translator, a technical writer, and a grant writer. In my writing, I explore myth, legend, and languages. This blog is devoted to my past and future writings. – Johanna Rodda
Month: July 2026
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Demon of night, and embers all aglow: tonight we gather round the fireplace, heart of our home. My father lades the fire, loads into it paper, as kindling, and logs we have had for years, well-dried. But for the kindling keenly stoked, the house would be cold, this third night without power after the storm.…
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Are we rare, and therefore lucky? Do aliens sit, upon a day, like us, in a park, on a bench, under trees, with sun to look down over them, and kiss their eyes as they marvel at green and flowers around them? Do people on other planets look up to the heavens, standing and immersed…
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When Lucy walked the plains of Africa, when all her kind had learned to walk with the crowns of their heads reaching tall to the sky, when they used tools, first to forage, then to hunt, when they first began to range out far from the places where they had first come to be, I…
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There was nothing defiant in the thin man I met along the streets one day. He was the most heaven-sent of all beings I’ve ever had cause to meet beneath the sun. He was sitting in a wheelchair. All of him was skin and bones, neck to ankle. Yet there was nothing defiant in the…
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In the summer I will return to the city I love. With its broad streets and green parks. Cafes in abundance where you can sit a while and write, or read, or talk with friends. I have met many people this way. The city lies on a placid lake. Wide beaches lie along it. I…
