I believe in Santa Claus. That’s right. I am a 30-something, college-educated adult who believes Santa Claus is real. No, I wasn’t hit in the head recently, nor was I the unknowing star of a Hallmark movie where a magical stranger in a red suit introduced me to my small town soulmate. I believe in […]
Words From The Other Side
Pushcart Prize Nominations
We are proud to announce our 2018 Pushcart Prize nominations: “First Mars, then the Moon” by Ciera Horton McElroy “Disneyland” by Robert Vaughan “Let’s Get Loud” by Vanessa Gonzales “The Fifth Amendment: Yearning to Be Free” by MFC Feeley “The Siren” by Alyssa Pearl Fusek “N n’ N” by Rosa Boshier
The Thing About Gratitude
Thanksgiving is gone. It left us on Thursday. Me, I wish every day was Thanksgiving. I love the notion of gratitude, and the way that that one day gives people the courage to be vulnerable, to say sober what we might not otherwise. I’m so incredibly happy you’re in my life. You make things better. […]
The End of the World as We Know It
I spend entirely too much time thinking about the end of the world. I should clarify. I don’t think very much about the ways the world could actually end: climate change-related, nuclear disaster, asteroid. I spend more time thinking about zombies. Vampires. Dragons. Maybe aliens. But mostly zombies, the Walking Dead kind more than the […]
The Thing About Mentors
Is everyone should have at least one, at all times. The other thing is: It’s up to you to pick them, not the other way around. When I was in the corporate world I had dozens and dozens of mentors, all unassigned, except by me, for me. My first was a woman named Carol who […]
Motherhood and Writing Life
The first two weeks of motherhood I said aloud, “I don’t want to be a mother anymore,” on a daily basis. With a chronic illness zapping my already sleep deprived body, I longed to write and make art. Almost two years into motherhood, I sacrifice my writing and visual art on a regular basis. It’s […]
