by Ashlyn M. Ohm | Mar 22, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light
The next morning, our road turned a northward corner. Making a right angle to the direction we’d followed for so far, we took I-25, heading up New Mexico toward the Colorado border. After we’d driven only ten minutes, Albuquerque—the city of answers—was already...
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | Mar 15, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light
By the time Kason and I walked back to the RV, the sunlight had already strengthened with a hazy intensity that hinted at a hot day. The world was awake once more—camper doors slamming, people laughing and talking in the tent sites, a truck crunching over the gravel...
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | Mar 8, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light
We were safely back in the RV on Saturday night when Jaz tried to turn me into a heathen. “We won’t leave till noon tomorrow.” Blake was studying the navigation on his phone. “It’s a shorter drive from here to Albuquerque.” My stomach flopped with that...
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | Feb 28, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light
Saturday was the day I discovered three things. First, Jaz is also a nerd. She just hides it better than Kason does. Second, an escarpment is—I’m quoting Jaz here—the sharp slope that separates a plateau from the rest of the land. Kind of like a point of no...
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | Feb 23, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light
And believe it or not, the excitement of the evening didn’t stop there. A few minutes later, while Jaz and I were scrubbing the floor with paper towels—tomato sauce dries like glue—there was a knock on the door. Turned out to be one of the park workers—a guy with sort...
