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, 2020Latest Posts
On Being Human.-
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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 -
Friendship, Grief, Guest Posts
Remodeling, Loss and the Kitchen Sink
I have always decorated to my taste with no worry about resale and at the time, I had a taste for forest green. I also had a dear friend being treated for breast cancer.
December 21, 2020 -
Guest Posts, Relationships
Crazy Ex-Lawyer Meets Happily Ever After
I want to get a dog and walk in the sun and write books. I want to quit my job. But I can’t, because I have everything.
December 20, 2020 -
Guest Posts, Politics, Relationships
Irreconcilable Difference: Living With A Trump Supporter
I believe couples can have opposing beliefs and still have a healthy, loving relationship – perhaps only until those beliefs involve Trump. I feel absolutely shattered that this is who my (by the way, immigrant) husband supports.
December 19, 2020 -
Christmas, Fiction Fridays, Guest Posts
Waiting For Flicker, Christmas 1963
Dad had been looking forward to the Christmas roast since sometime around the Fourth of July. He loathed Christmas and all things associated with it but wasn’t about to let that spoil a good meal.
December 18, 2020 -
Guest Posts, healing, Mental Health
The Long Path: Healing the Wounds of Childhood
I keep catching myself saying it’s stupid or it’s silly, because…it’s just a bag. But in truth, nobody else can possibly know or understand how “just a bag” makes me feel. And now I recognize this as trauma.
December 15, 2020 -
Family, Guest Posts, Holidays
The Hanukkah Owl
In our family, Hanukkah gifts tended toward the practical- socks, a few silver dollars of gelt, chocolate coins, paperback books, and vinyl records or eight-track tapes of Israeli nightclub music or Irish Rover folk songs.
December 13, 2020 -
Guest Posts, Siblings, sisters
The Things I’d Tell Her
My sister is moving with her husband and my twin toddler nephews to North Carolina in two weeks. That’s 811 miles away from her family of origin.
December 12, 2020 -
Fiction, Fiction Fridays, Guest Posts
Chinchillas
Duane sent off the money to the address in the ad, which read “RAISE CHINCHILLAS AS A HOBBY. Fabulous profits. Small space in your basement, garage, or extra room is all you need.”
December 11, 2020
