Fiction, Fiction Fridays, Guest Posts
The Vanished Hitchhiker
She’d been warned countless times about the dangers of hitchhiking, but she’d never had any trouble on the road, and liked thumbing rides.
January 15, 2021Latest Posts
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Guest Posts, Self Care, Self Image
Resistant as F*ck, part 2
What’s more, I resisted the truth about my own body—its inherent greatness—because acknowledging it would have required a shift: I’d have to start caring for myself the way it cared for me.
January 14, 2021 -
Guest Posts, Self Care, Self Image
Resistant as F*ck, part 1
I’m ashamed to admit this, but rather than go to a place of empathy or outrage over his negligent upbringing, my mind goes instead to a place of curiosity.
January 13, 2021 -
Guest Posts, Self Image
“Deaf” Does Not Define Me
“What’s that?” is my placeholder for, “Can you repeat that, please? I am hard of hearing and I don’t have my hearing aids in because I am ashamed of my hearing loss.”
January 10, 2021 -
Fiction, Fiction Fridays, Guest Posts
Song Looking for a Tune
His first hit, the song he was known for, was told through the eyes of a little boy whose father drove a truck “steering big wheels of sadness” for days at a time. A tear jerker in the best country tradition, with mandatory slide guitar wail.
January 8, 2021 -
Fiction Fridays, Guest Posts
Tangalooma Dreaming
She didn’t want any of this anymore. She didn’t want Charlotte and Melissa, Lotti and Issa. She didn’t want the “escape” from real life that was no longer working.
January 1, 2021 -
Guest Posts, poetry, Winter
A Winter Spell for the Changeling
Turn into the slide.
December 31, 2020
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Family, Grief, Guest Posts
Pay Attention
The last time I wore the delicate, bodice hugging, demure yet inviting black dress was four years ago, almost to the day: August 29, 2016; the day my brother eulogized his youngest daughter, in his backyard.
December 30, 2020 -
Guest Posts, pandemic
Isolation Blues
By Loreen Lilyn Lee If you live with people, sheltering in place has its challenges, but lack of human…
December 29, 2020 -
Guest Posts
Gene(s)
I didn’t know what a psychotic break was or whether the doctor in Pittsburgh was right or wrong about me. All I really wanted was for him to help me figure out whether people were really out to ruin my career or whether I just needed to study harder.
December 28, 2020 -
Grief, Guest Posts, healing
Pilgrimage in the Land of the Rising Sun
Through the hidden side of the temple, I opened a sacred door into my soul today. I had not known why I came to Japan but at this instant, I get the hint that I am here to attempt to heal my bruised soul and to learn to remember the joy of waking up in the morning.
December 27, 2020 -
Birthday, Guest Posts, memories
I Hear You, Please Come In
Under my skin, I sense an urge to mobilize into action, to complete something. To get out of this skin, this relationship, this home, this womb. Anniversaries of any kind can evoke plenty.
December 26, 2020 -
Activism, Guest Posts, Mental Health
Exercise, Weed, Sex…Nothing is Easing My Anxiety
When George Floyd was murdered, I watched that video over and over. And then I watched the reactions of people protesting in the street.
December 23, 2020 -
Guest Posts, postpartum depression
Prescriptions and Postpartum: When It’s Easier to Medicate Than Listen
Well, that’s just having a baby, the receptionist informs me. A gatekeeper who mocks me. I use google instead, get confused by conflicting advice, and cry on the floor of his nursery while he joins me in wailing harmonies.
December 22, 2020
