Streetlight Magazine | Paula Boyland | Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/paula/activity/ Activity feed for Paula Boyland. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:09:40 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 16619aa99b56ea0494e238c246502bc9 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41639 Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:00:45 -0500 Why Visual Identity Matters More Than Ever in the AI Content Era by Art Meder I’m a Chicago-based visual artist working primarily with street photography and short-form video. My work focuses on capturing the city through a r […]

]]> 3597c875df7a90a23145f902f4fe8050 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40571 Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:00:14 -0400 What Would Shakespeare Do? by Fiona M. Jones What do you do when something ought to be a word but isn’t yet? You’re typing in something you’ve written, and a little red line appears under […]

]]> 32d760d2b57d6f350d95c1b500d194e6 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37329 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 13:00:43 -0500 Like your relationship with Creativity? If not, Julia Cameron can help you change it. by Lisa Cooper Ellison Last Thursday, I attended a gathering of local writing friends where we ate food and gave out lots of hugs, along with cheers of “OMG! I haven’t seen […]

]]> 4291399c4393f6a6871ae3d03781d746 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=35578 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 07:00:51 -0400 What AM I Looking For? by Paula Boyland Despite a mountain of unfinished drafts, I am compelled to start another book. While drafting an essay something clicked, a connection was made in my […]

]]> df6f004aacb6a30367798f70d2f3baed Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=33196 Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:00:33 -0500  
The sound of rain.
It gently taps on the roof. The blinds are closed, but you can see that outside there are a few other
green apartment buildings surrounded by an evergreen forest.
The branches are […]

]]> 37ec616b87e2e33d1e9b122dd6ea1ddb Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=32536 Mon, 06 Dec 2021 08:00:18 -0500 Steps and measurements, bullet points of to-dos with creation in mind. Beautiful guidelines meant only to guide. It is here that I begin, here that I write something of worth, something to heal, where I grow again […]

]]> 216922a85dccb0a53274607427399201 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=32527 Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:00:47 -0500 Mexican-American. Latino/a. Are the hyphens and slashes connecting these forces more like borders or bridges, separating or unifying to the touch? Why can’t I superimpose Mexican and American so that they Rest u […]

]]> dd375fd9ea5b5e5ab19d662f8b31a452 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=32093 Mon, 30 Aug 2021 12:00:56 -0400 I am in the middle of writing an essay that spans a full twenty-nine of my thirty-two years of life. It hinges on an event that happened three Thanksgivings ago, but reaches as far back as my third birthday […]

]]> 944657d8c816430e466628e835638344 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=31507 Mon, 31 May 2021 08:00:14 -0400 At thirty-seven inches and thirty-seven pounds, I was the second smallest kid in my first-grade class. The smallest was a kid we called Peanut—a boy so tiny, he’d drown in the shallow end of the pool. Everyone lov […]

]]> 137ee57ca1cb165d66fb4400c52c6f73 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=31105 Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:00:27 -0500 All my life, I’ve processed joy and sorrow, confusion and diatribe, in writing. I have a book of hand written poems working through the tragedies and angst of a teenage mindscape. I have notebooks journaling my c […]

]]> 4893a4f7cae1ea639560691da5c6e68f Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=30907 Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:00:43 -0500 Among other national celebrations like Black History Month, Great American Pies Month and National Library Lover’s Month, February is also National Self-Check Month. Turns out, there’s a whole yearly calendar of […]

]]> 12d9465bb6c4da6fe6653af7bb4c54d6 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=30611 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:00:10 -0500 Last night I received an email from Emily, the copy editor, reminding me I’d signed up to provide the blog post for Monday. Uh, oh. For some reason I never added the deadline to my calendar. I knew I’d signed up […]

]]> f8cf0bf74325d78637abdf96e536005f Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=30002 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:00:32 -0400 “Welcome! How can I help you today?” I asked as the store doors opened.

The first customer was an older gentleman who I’d glimpsed pacing outside like a taunted zoo lion for at least a half hour before we unloc […]

]]> 404c958504126ccbba3a5fa2c0175a07 Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=29481 Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:14:12 -0400 It’s a common situation. In a closely-knit global community we find ourselves communicating in several languages.

The best part is that we don’t necessarily need to be conversant in the said lan […]

]]> e8e3c916d213128869d8de2b18b31dca Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=29452 Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:00:59 -0400 She beats her fist on the secretary desk. Its ancient wooden arms bear her blows. This is the place where her great uncle sat writing his weekly sermons, the place where her grandfather, the professor, sat […]

]]> 5e5fea78b457047031527a16c1a93f5d Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=28567 Mon, 01 Jun 2020 10:00:28 -0400 I’ve been having some strange dreams lately, probably most of us have.

A cooked salmon lies in the middle of the highway, missing half his body, yet alive and showing no signs of distress. We all get out o […]

]]> 3abb4eb53e8fe4f0b12fa234eb7e620b Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=27593 Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:00:43 -0500 I remember the exact moment when I decided to become a writer. It was the winter of 1987. I was in sixth-period study hall, gripping Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. The book catapulted me into the world of Louis C […]

]]> 407049717de6eb3446e83eb1ac3731ae Paula Boyland wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=27568 Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:00:01 -0500 I love mornings.

For me, this time is full of promise and magic and possibility. Anything could happen today. Nothing negative has marred the perfection of the peace and quiet. No one has made any demands. The […]

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