We’ve become vegan since moving to Oregon this fall for jobs as adjunct writing instructors, Norma from Chicago, where she’d had to flee “her Virgo stalker,” and me from New York. We’d both dropped out of PhD programs and received…

Now, I breathe deeply through the searing pain and think how our bodies can learn to endure anything, how we develop new standards for pain and we think these new standards make us stronger. But is it strength to bear…