Streetlight Magazine | Spriggan Radfae | Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/spriggan/activity/ Activity feed for Spriggan Radfae. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:11:32 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4179d296ff245e716b3fdfacdca014d1 Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, Cats by Christine Tucker https://streetlightmag.com/2022/04/08/cats-by-christine-tucker/#comment-503709 Fri, 06 Oct 2023 12:51:21 -0400 I’m surprised this hasn’t happened to me… thank goodness we have a generator! And the oxygen tanks? They won’t pick up extras (“No sir, we were told to pick up 5 and drop off 5.”) But in one year, I had to bury […]

]]> 40cdc9378ed2d45d8b7cee8b7a444593 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=24750 Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:33:00 -0500 

Podcast: When a woman faces the loss of a beloved, aging pet, she finds herself confronting her own experience with age and death.

A short story performed by Jennifer Sims.

Read the story online: E […]

]]> 1cbc52a28de44e98d48893fe503b1e41 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=24705 Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:00:29 -0500 When whales and porpoises beach themselves en masse, people react and mobilize in response to the tragedy. The sight of cetaceans dying from dehydration or drowning, and the inevitability of their slow, suffering […]

]]> 7d2ae3b6d0bf3305f1d3ac721b3b564a Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=23881 Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:00:39 -0500 Who am I?
Why am I here?
What do I want?
What do I offer?

Last week, when I attended an event about purposeful living, a group of 10 people meditated briefly and answered these same questions. We had agreed […]

]]> 5b9f74c13db499078556251492d65a7b Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=23858 Mon, 01 Oct 2018 12:27:27 -0400 One summer evening, long after dusk, I was relaxing on a porch in a comfy chair next to a novelist I’d just met when she softly announced, “The stars in the sky look like an ocean. But I’m high, so maybe that’s […]

]]> 3025e49aa10706185ba86815fb168ee1 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=23404 Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:12:05 -0400 I like games. I like cooperative, team-building games in particular.

Here is a game called Midnight Adventure that I played in competition with several teams:
A group of five people (my team) worked together […]

]]> ab936c3a2765e56ae8c4a6e989ff9ddb Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, The Birds of Spring by Roselyn Elliott https://streetlightmag.com/2018/05/28/the-birds-of-spring-by-roselyn-elliott/#comment-40697 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:48:37 -0400 Rose, you are a woman after my own heart! I had never encountered the term biophilia, but I’ve heard the concept espoused many times before.

]]> 7a40dd6ef8caaab07ff71abdc08c45c6 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=23021 Mon, 14 May 2018 12:00:59 -0400 Being disowned by your family is often an integral part of the queer experience. It’s a common story that I find is meticulously avoided in popular, escapist/pulp media—an effect of heterosexism that erases and d […]

]]> 3527fe46193078faae2db50300e19443 Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, A Dream To Disconnect, by Mathina Calliope https://streetlightmag.com/2018/05/07/a-dream-to-disconnect-by-mathina-calliope/#comment-39934 Tue, 08 May 2018 19:46:09 -0400 Mathina, I don’t relate, but I can empathize. From my alternate experience: “…precisely what is lacking in the social media world: loss of connection.” So… different but related: […]

]]> 45cb77936171e31e6c9f66bb1c2aabe3 Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, A Place for the Genuine by Les Bares https://streetlightmag.com/2018/03/19/a-place-for-the-genuine-by-les-bares/#comment-38663 Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:08:51 -0400 Les, you just summed up my experience this year! I got accepted by a journal that doesn’t use Submittable and they had a theme (first times) for their call. I’m glad you gave mention to those aspects of submitting […]

]]> e3a63fb9a9c0dfed951caf2af90c6cc6 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=22483 Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:33:44 -0500 For as long as I can remember, I’ve enjoyed being a creative person. I’ve occasionally been labeled “artsy-fartsy” or some similarly dismissive phrase. And I’ve struck back and used my own pejorative, the phrase […]

]]> d87cf25ccbab423a3869ccce8997fbce Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=22135 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:23:40 -0500 2017 was an amazing year for Streetlight Magazine owing to the excellent content submitted by writers and poets from all over the world. Our editors chose six nominees for The Pushcart Prize (best of small […]

]]> 5501a181c7e34ab3a61ca840f2ef8e93 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=21860 Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:00:16 -0500 Last week was a mess! Well, at least that’s what I’ve been told. In my purpose-coaching practice, I had four clients in a row who used the word “mess” to describe their life these days. One client said, “becaus […]

]]> 0c334f92ee445dfb249828037f2cfe39 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=21624 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:25:08 -0500 Discussion about multiculturalism can have a polarizing effect on people and it often slides into train wreck conversations or initiates a war of words. People tend to pick sides based on affiliation and then […]

]]> d473fa95d262beef9b952a9499216683 Spriggan Radfae changed their profile picture https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/1385/ Mon, 16 Oct 2017 04:43:44 -0400 0 7a2685805c93a1d4cbb5d62cb461a03b Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, What I Saw in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017 by Cora Schenberg https://streetlightmag.com/2017/08/17/what-i-saw-in-charlottesville-on-august-12-2017-by-cora-schenberg/#comment-36351 Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:56:07 -0400 Thanks for sharing this powerful personal story, Cora. I am still in shock that such wanton hate unfolded in our peaceful Charlottesville. I’m so glad your family survived the tragedy uninjured.

]]> 1db03c4e53664dc8d2b7318dd71ec687 Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, A Vast Bloom of Light https://streetlightmag.com/2017/03/26/a-vast-bloom-of-light/#comment-36329 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:16:54 -0400 Sharron, those nearly 80 years you’ve been around have refined your writing and artistry. This is a memoir filled with delicious visuals.

]]> 9c5cc74d9aa7ceb45f3214d5dde7d62e Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=19649 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:16:27 -0400 For most of my youth, I lived in a secure blanket of belonging. I belonged to the groups of people that surrounded me at my school and church: white Christians, married couples with children (children like me), […]

]]> 0513fcfa33e966e96c8911f79d8bfcad Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=19154 Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:48:01 -0500 Writing a story from a foreign or external perspective offers not only the reward of expanding your own awareness about people but can also lead to empathy for others that you may not have had before. To write […]

]]> 71002494bd405c560a4579a560ba6cd0 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17627 Mon, 05 Sep 2016 14:07:45 -0400 I recently interviewed my friend, Sue Eisenfeld, about her creative nonfiction writing, and it turns out she’s taught a range of courses and workshops at Johns Hopkins University in creative nonfiction. She’s […]

]]> 2092e5844bd9a278bd494b95f4709f60 Spriggan Radfae and Tam Evans are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/550/ Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:10:45 -0400 0 63ecf68015e38bdef3ddb9855ad8e3c5 Spriggan Radfae and Jennifer Sims, Voice Actor are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/508/ Mon, 01 Aug 2016 23:10:32 -0400 0 99c0caa4853c1b65666de18568df0049 Spriggan Radfae and Ethan Bernhardt are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/501/ Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:43:53 -0400 0 3b7804bef5b46ef3ca8ba81557b6c264 Spriggan Radfae and Emily Littlewood are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/493/ Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:52:31 -0400 0 6952676d6f2c818efb9a1086d6fb4324 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16700 Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:52:19 -0400 Some writers spend years honing their craft until their work unfolds with the effortless grace of an Olympic figure skater. It’s the kind of ease and proficiency that looks impossible—belying countless hours of r […]

]]> 249c8a5d0646f8e764ef5fb27e612028 Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, Looking for the Light: Fax Ayres' Photographs https://streetlightmag.com/2016/07/04/looking-for-the-light/#comment-36198 Thu, 07 Jul 2016 22:20:41 -0400 thanks Nancy–I fixed the link to Fax’s page!

]]> 8e364196d72e9ebb9d40cecc89215e65 Spriggan Radfae started the topic in the forum Workshops, Seminars, Groups https://streetlightmag.com/lamplighter-forum/topic/2016-willamette-writers-conference-portland-or-08-12-16/ Tue, 05 Jul 2016 13:31:47 -0400 We are Willamette Writers

We’ve assembled inspirational keynotes and a world-class faculty. We’ve lined up agents, editors, and producers actively looking for new writers. And we’ve sprinkled special events throughout the conference to provide further opportunities for enrichment and networking.
Registration for WW Non-Members
Regular price…[Read more]

]]> eea182f8c78e30d562565eb7e0cb556e Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, Looking for the Light: Fax Ayres' Photographs https://streetlightmag.com/2016/07/04/looking-for-the-light/#comment-36193 Mon, 04 Jul 2016 15:29:02 -0400 I couldn’t believe these images were traditional photography! It’s a simple technique, but it creates images that defy your eyes.

]]> d4a5e182c99fc0bf71e1dcfc96082aa0 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16413 Sun, 03 Jul 2016 03:06:28 -0400  

Machinery and tools—their design, operation and production—were early interests that would shape Blake Hurt’s professional and creative life. “I picked a field of engineering that would be relative […]

]]> 39e4c3f430cbf3c008af47a09f9ac8cc Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16405 Sun, 03 Jul 2016 02:49:32 -0400 Memphis, on the brink of World War II, a crowded city, my family squeezed in a small duplex. Mother and Father work in weapons factories. We’re gathered around the radio in our tiny living room.

Suddenly a s […]

]]> c809cc485e70dc421032c8f1ac3ce014 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16401 Sun, 03 Jul 2016 02:10:56 -0400 It was midnight of our last night in the cannery, and all twelve of us who had been assigned the fish house had been working since seven that morning. All day and into the light-filled night, we had been cleaning […]

]]> ecd091cc8774d9f3b27bcd2a1bb26418 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16396 Sun, 03 Jul 2016 01:58:07 -0400 Stevie Nicks
 
Under the strobes
guitar hands, neon blonde.

She sings like a forty-year-old child,
wears a witch’s cape.

Tosses back her jukebox tenor
to the audience.

We stone up,
all the freaks in […]

]]> f87676e0fce0acfcf246df2d87f5ddea Spriggan Radfae posted a new activity comment https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/321/#acomment-345 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 05:56:08 -0400 Yes you are! Sorry about the snag with the activation email. This is all new and takes time to smooth out the bumps.
Btw, I have really enjoyed your blogs–can’t wait to read the next one!

In reply to - Alex Joyner posted an update Hey thanks, Spriggan. I think I’m in now! ]]> 775f2d1f1af4f96070e6081accbcc51a Spriggan Radfae started the topic in the forum https://streetlightmag.com/lamplighter-forum/topic/c-o-w-squaw/ Wed, 29 Jun 2016 04:18:24 -0400 The Laramie Awards ~ Western, Pioneer, Civil War Fiction Novel Writing Contest ~2016
The search for 2016’s best Early North American Historical Fiction Books

Deadline July 31st, 2016

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring cowboys, the wild west, pioneering, civil war, and early North American History, we will…[Read more]

]]> ec4d0ffb0152a1471dfc2c914d0711e5 Spriggan Radfae posted an update in the group Streetlight’s Lamplighters: Welcome to our newest Lamplighter, William! Also, a belated […] https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/339/ Wed, 29 Jun 2016 03:38:42 -0400 Welcome to our newest Lamplighter, William! Also, a belated welcome to our blogger, Alex Joyner. Alex, thanks so much for the amazing blogs you share on Streetlight!

]]> 0 58c6ab3a1a587401f63e348b45d81b91 Spriggan Radfae posted an update in the group Streetlight’s Lamplighters: I wrote a poem yesterday about an experience I had with a […] https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/336/ Wed, 29 Jun 2016 03:24:36 -0400 I wrote a poem yesterday about an experience I had with a neighbor who is dying. The experience was intense, and when I got home, I sat down and started processing the experience into a poem about death and end of life. I like that fact that I am getting better and more practiced about seizing the moment and writing my experiences, but I wish I…[Read more]

]]> 0 db21d1df8e690359f387f54d7e966fc9 Spriggan Radfae posted an update in the group Streetlight’s Lamplighters: Jennifer's work was featured in an earlier blog on […] https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/313/ Sun, 26 Jun 2016 19:35:13 -0400 Jennifer’s work was featured in an earlier blog on Streetlight: https://streetlightmag.com/2016/02/08/strange-fruit/

]]> 0 25b439062b7c265004d2bc4ec33186d5 Spriggan Radfae started the topic in the forum Writing Contests https://streetlightmag.com/lamplighter-forum/topic/va-statewide-2016-golden-nib-contest-vwc-members/ Sun, 26 Jun 2016 04:34:07 -0400
The 2016 Golden Nib writing contest is officially open. The Golden Nib is the Virginia Writers Club annual writing competition in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and poetry with cash prizes for first, second, and third place finishers. Contestants must be members in good-standing of a VWC chapter as well as a member of the state…[Read more]

]]> b4b322b484c94d825de0688ee6348e8e Spriggan Radfae posted an update in the group Streetlight’s Lamplighters: Streetlight wishes a very Happy Birthday today to our art […] https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/195/ Sun, 19 Jun 2016 19:09:58 -0400 Streetlight wishes a very Happy Birthday today to our art editor, Elizabeth Howard. Thank-you, Elizabeth, for your tireless energy and many hours of volunteer work. I hope you take a moment to enjoy this special day!

]]> 0 ba52c5c4cc367375f109ffc474eab22f Spriggan Radfae and jenny_ruth_writes are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/184/ Fri, 17 Jun 2016 21:47:11 -0400 0 3444aebf14ac6109d2d7bf62a534f22a Spriggan Radfae and Elizabeth Howard are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/99/ Mon, 06 Jun 2016 19:25:30 -0400 0 89929cd3a0f9c4e57845af4b505fda72 Spriggan Radfae and Sharron Singleton are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/95/ Mon, 06 Jun 2016 19:25:01 -0400 0 ad75d4b96bdbfb1367f7735a0d7dddda Spriggan Radfae and Suzanne Freeman are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/91/ Mon, 06 Jun 2016 19:23:22 -0400 0 1dea229584496891b3fa9f2aa9fbeb89 Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, Anacostia Unmapped https://streetlightmag.com/2016/05/23/anacostia-unmapped/#comment-35909 Tue, 24 May 2016 15:56:29 -0400 Glad to see these stories are getting exposure! I watched similar events unfold in Fort Lauderdale, FL as low income families were pushed to the less desirable land away from the beaches and west of I-95. […]

]]> 69f23202b5cd3d8515d9cd7bf05a9c69 Spriggan Radfae and Erika Raskin are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/39/ Tue, 24 May 2016 15:20:58 -0400 0 67bcd7226abc966cbd414b3ab94b4672 Spriggan Radfae and Karol Lagodzki are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/35/ Tue, 24 May 2016 03:18:03 -0400 0 b0d8a418b6671c24ec70733770474211 Spriggan Radfae and Trudy are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/28/ Mon, 23 May 2016 22:33:52 -0400 0 0f91fe4bae018263067df192ff99e85c Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=14059 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:09:35 -0500 Write It Right! Free Grammar Resources for Writers.

Sometimes even the most erudite writers use bad grammar or misspell words. Hey it happens. English is a living language after all and subject to change. […]

]]> 8eee2ab3c7ce29839cca4b84bc068899 Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=13725 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:47:14 -0500 Many writers choose not to enter creative writing contests because they think the low odds of winning aren’t worth the effort. And yet, that’s exactly the kind of thinking that makes it easy for other people to […]

]]> 7313f5b9bac77f955d444feb7ba8694d Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=12592 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:38:23 -0400 Beyond the obvious grief of losing a parent or relative to old age, there is a particular tragedy that accompanies a person’s passing rarely whispered inside the comfortable blandness of funeral homes or o […]

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