by evamoon | Dec 17, 2017
Author, Eva Moon Whether it’s a novel, a song, a play, or a film, author Eva Moon is fascinated by those moments when you must leap into the unknown without knowing whether you’ll crash or grow wings. Pinocchio’s Guide to the End of the World “As...
by evamoon | Oct 12, 2016 | Moonshine
Sitting in the open door of the airplane. Nearly fourteen thousand feet below my dangling toes, the lovely Washington coast is a green and blue abstract. I know I am going to die. And I couldn’t be happier. From the time we first encounter death – usually the...
by evamoon | Nov 27, 2013 | Moonshine
I am waiting for bad news. Or good news. It’s not something I’m very good at – waiting. I can’t just put things I’m worried about out of my mind and get on with the day. What I’m waiting for is a test result. In a week or so, my 29-year-old son will learn if he...
by evamoon | Oct 10, 2013 | Moonshine
If I could turn back time and alter the roll of the genetic dice that gave me the BRCA1 mutation — never experience agonies of fear waiting for biopsy results, not face the wrenching decision to give up my breasts and ovaries, endure 22 hours of surgeries, months of...
by evamoon | Aug 24, 2013 | Moonshine
I consider myself a fairly liberated, independent woman. I grew up with the pill and bra burnings. I am not defined by my appearance, completed by my relationship with a man or limited in my aspirations by my gender. I don’t consider myself a victim. And heaven help...