Debka Colson writes fiction, poetry and nonfiction and works as the Program Director for The Writers’ Room of Boston. Her work has appeared in North American Review, Folio, Roar, GAMBAZine, Construction, and Slab, among others, and in two anthologies. “Baking Lessons” is excerpted from her recently completed hybrid memoir, Gaining Ground. Please visit www.DebkaColson.com for more information.
We moved to Dallas from a small market town in the middle of England. We spent our first Christmas in America driving around our adopted Texan neighborhood, noses pressed against the car windows, looking at the miles of sparkling houses.