“We should stop using the term ‘bullet points.’” Erin Murphy offers life lessons on cherry blossoms, Gwyneth Paltrow, gun violence, and more. Continue Reading Tell Me Something You’ve ...
In ‘Patterns’, a heartfelt narrative unfolds, capturing the tender interplay between a daughter and her ailing mother, where even the simple hospital gown weaves a story of love, loss, and ...
I tried to convince myself I wasn’t a total trope—after all, the paradise we visited could be another person’s nightmare. “No Happy Endings” by Jamie Hudalla. Continue Reading ...
I begin with a story of how I came to discover the work of James Baldwin; I begin with the novel Giovanni’s Room. Continue Reading Expat in Paris
Who will write this story? Welcome to history’s horror show—poverty’s shame, locked rooms, lashings? House of Horrors, Home of Light by Maria Terrone Continue Reading House of Horror, ...
“The mind, unlike a library, is more like a web.” Learn from Kristi Ferguson in today’s #EssaySaturday, “Running Lessons.” Continue Reading Running Lessons
How could I then put into words my feelings about my favorite one of them all, the Danube? Continue Reading Ab Aqua Libertas
Can you remember the first time you began to fashion things of your own, whether objects, characters, or anything else? Continue Reading GOD: THE INTERVIEW
It’s 1992 and Mr. White Boots enters the house with a guttural meow and a mouse in his mouth. I scream like a banshee, thinking he’ll drop it at my ...
My father wanted to build my character so that nothing could destroy me, not even him. He wanted me to be strong and resilient, confident and self-assured, capable of overcoming ...
In those days we sat at individual wooden desks, the surfaces often scarred with carved initials, ink stains, and gouges from pencils. I had been warned about the algebra teacher, ...
I never expected Dresden to be surreal. This was Germany – the trains would run on time, the architecture would be cold, people would be stern and predictable and there ...
As the Ukrainian war crosses into the border into Russia, our Saturday Essay serves a tapestry weaving current events, the visceral sting of history, and the domesticity of personal lives, ...
“I awoke before anyone else, in an unfamiliar house full of art and stuffed toys.” Today’s EssaySaturday USA is “Baltimore by the Mid-Morning Light” by Jesse Goodman. Continue ...
“My best shot of meeting anyone may be dog walking.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Spastic-Dog Woman” by Lisa K. Harris. Continue Reading Spastic-Dog Woman
The world had different rules for women in 1972 than today. Continue Reading This One’s for Linda
Three of them lying on a beach, the nearest one half engulfed in sand, the bow of a sunken troop carrier jutting out of the water nearby. ...
“To feel like I belong, like I’ve put time into one place and stayed long enough to put roots down.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Home is Where I’ve Arrived Too ...
The “A – Z” is a pocket-sized street atlas of the city of London. Continue Reading London A – Z: A Memoir
I just saw your beautiful fox: my neighbor texts me on her early morning walk past my house. I’ve seen the fox many times, usually over the first sips ...
