Guest Posts, writing
Becoming A Brave Artist
After whittling an essay collection for three years, I was mystified by the ending. How was I supposed to finish a book about romantic love when I’d never retained it?
September 29, 2020Latest Posts
On Being Human.-
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Chronic Illness, chronic pain, Guest Posts
Hysteria & Me: An Ancient, Misogynistic Disorder is Killing Women
By Elizabeth Land Quant On a December morning in 2017, I woke up face down next to my treadmill.…
September 27, 2020 -
Family, Guest Posts
Unstuck
I am ten. Sitting on the edge of the porcelain tub while my mother paints on cat-eyes.
September 24, 2020 -
Divorce, Guest Posts
She Cannot Make It Out
He isn’t grieving but she imagines him grieving. Maybe he’s grieving. She dreams he is talking to others about her as if she is dead, though they are only divorcing.
September 22, 2020 -
Family, Guest Posts
Tossed To Order
Next order up is a sandwich and the ticket has the name Cassandra written on the top. I feel a quick flutter of panic.
September 20, 2020 -
Alcoholism, Guest Posts, Relationships
Fix It
Four years have passed since I lost Emily for the last time. She would be proud of me if she’s not drinking. My religious friends say if you pray enough, heaven is an open bar.
September 17, 2020 -
Compassion, Fertility, Guest Posts
The Mindful Mother – When are you having a baby?
Nobody would know that I had miscarried my first baby and had chosen to keep this information to myself as a way to cope and the memory still haunts me. So when asked, it was as if lightning struck.
September 15, 2020 -
Guest Posts, Yoga
Tracing the Thread of Sanskrit in Yoga Practice
No matter which lens you use, this is certain: modern yoga is a union of countless movements in history.
September 13, 2020 -
Health, Women
We Must End Period Poverty For All Women And Girls
Extending deeper for many women and girls, the crux of period poverty is caused by the long-standing cultural stigma that menstruating women are dirty.
September 10, 2020 -
Family, Guest Posts
My Disapproving Mother Unwittingly Fuels My Creative Expression
Needless to say, my mother is my outer critic.
September 8, 2020 -
aging, Guest Posts, Women
Law And Yoga
If we were men, they’d call it a mid-life crisis. We’d buy Porches and sleep with 20-year-olds. But we’re women.
September 6, 2020 -
Guest Posts, healing, Illness
I Got Sick
My body wasn’t mine when I laid on those tables. It was a slab of diseased nonverbal meat being cleaned and purified to be fit for the normal human world.
September 3, 2020 -
Guest Posts, Mental Health, parenting
All Boys Paint Cows
Nick arrived six months later and filled our world with his own configurations of unexpected stars. Some were beautiful, some had sharp edges that cut.
August 31, 2020 -
Chronic Illness, Guest Posts, pandemic
What Doesn’t Kill You Still Sucks: HIV & COVID-19
It is almost certain I have contracted COVID-19. I can’t confirm this with certainty because it is nearly impossible to be tested for the virus.
August 28, 2020
