“ Par ma foi !” cries Molière’s would-be bourgeois gentleman M. Jourdain: “For more than forty years I have been speaking prose while knowing nothing of it”! I had my own Molière moment just recently when I learned that there was actually a name—and a scientific name at that—for my inability to smell: “anosmia.” I myself might otherwise have come up with a name like “olfactory deprivation,” or perhaps “smell blindness” (I know this is controversial), but I wanted to imply a …
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“In the Same Place” – Personal Essay by Caitlin Hernandez
*Aromatica Poetica is extremely pleased to present a personal essay about the tastes and smells and feels of young love by Caitlin Hernandez. It’s the last in our Blind Writers Project series sponsored by Awesome Foundation Disability* In a way, it all started with that trip to Safeway, to the chocolate pie mix you saw on sale. My birthday was over a month away, but you insisted on buying the easy-to-make dessert for me. “An early birthday present,” you called …
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“Date Night, Day Camp” by Kira Grunenberg
*Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present Kira Grunenberg’s personal essay that will make your mouth water as part of our Blind Writers Project series sponsored by Awesome Foundation Disability* The weekend’s trek for inspiration and ingredients was one devised with relative spontaneity. No, this wasn’t a jaunt to the local chain grocery. This was a drive to another county, to explore a still relatively new location for the Korean shop, H Mart – a chain I had only otherwise visited …