Molia Dumbleton

Aug 1, 2023 | thesunmagazine.org | Molia Dumbleton |Leslee Goodman |Joseph Rodriguez |Mishele Maron

Della has tutoring on Tuesday nights. Once a week I leave campus early, pick her up from school, drive her to the tutor’s apartment, and sit in the car for ninety minutes. I’ve tried a couple of other arrangements, but this is the one that works. In the spring and fall, when it’s still light, I bring a two-inch stack of student essays with me. They keep me company as I wait.

Aug 1, 2023 | thesunmagazine.org | Leslee Goodman |Mishele Maron |Molia Dumbleton |Maria Kuznetsova

As part of our ongoing celebration of the magazine’s fiftieth year in print, this month’s Dog-Eared Page is an interview previously published in The Sun. — Ed. On a solo trip to Vermont several years ago I parked my car near a trailhead and hiked to the top of a small mountain. It was October, peak leaf season, and overcast. After about an hour I reached a spot where I could look out over the terrain, and as I stopped to rest, I became aware of the silence around me.

Mar 16, 2023 | ecotonemagazine.org | Molia Dumbleton

eddieFrom his ladder, Eddie Oliveira could overhear Andreia and Teresa on the front porch, painting each another’s toenails and talking. The girls had slept late and only come down the back stairs about an hour earlier, in T-shirts and pajama pants, to the kitchen, where they’d poured themselves bowls of cereal, then shuffled barefoot out to the front porch to fold themselves into wicker chairs and eat in silence, looking out over the saltwater marsh across the street.