By Andrea A. Firth I’ve all the time wished to know the way a magician does the sawing a woman in half trick. I see her climb into the field, chat with the magician on one finish, and wiggle her toes on the different. Then I hear the thrill noticed and watch the magician break…
Interviewed by Morgan Baker Grief is common, but so particular person. Grief could make you’re feeling very alone, so once you discover a group, just like the one which editor and author Cindy Eastman created within the anthology Grief Like Yours: A Story Assortment of Life After Loss (Carpe Vitam Press; June 2025) you’re feeling…
By Kathy McKernan They are saying that one option to heal from previous trauma is to jot down it down. The story. The details. The issues that occurred. Pour the phrases onto a web page, hand them to the universe, and transfer on. Write it out. Let it go. So, I wrote. And wrote. And…
By Arya Samuelson The place to begin and the place to finish poses a singular problem to the memoirist. When working with the uncooked materials of our lives, we should make a deliberate resolution about the place to put the brackets, as a result of the query isn’t about the place your life begins, however…
We’re at all times happy to share updates from our household of contributor-alumni and occasion presenters. Consider this as your alma mater’s Class Notes, solely the alumni are our volunteers, contributors, and audio system. This replace is lengthy overdue and, due to that, this installment consists of virtually a yr’s value of great accomplishments that…
While you seek for absolutely anything on Google today, the search outcomes will seemingly embody a number of hyperlinks to dialogue threads on Reddit. Should you haven’t but spent a lot time on Reddit, it’s value testing for a number of causes. First, Reddit is a group the place customers focus on the whole lot…
By Melissa Petro For years, I made the identical secret New 12 months’s decision: to develop into a broadcast writer. Some years it appeared as an embarrassing hope tucked into the personal lists in my journal; different years it surfaced as a quiet psychological promise I made to myself whereas grocery procuring or dodging fellow…