Piper Shields

  • What’s in a Name?

    What’s in a Name?

    Shakespeare. Shakespere. Shakespear. Shakspeare. Shackspeare. Shakspere. The lingual revolutionist himself had six renditions of his surname. Nowadays, people are rarely as lenient as the Bard about their name’s spelling.…

  • Te Awa Mate

    Te Awa Mate

    The small figure before me curls tightly into a ball, the sweeping mountains and valleys of her figure causing waves in the shabby wool blanket we once so fondly…