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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year ago
Forehand Drive by Amy Foster Myer “How much further down you think it is?” He turned to look at me in the backseat as he drove. Through the front windshield, dark streets I did […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 year ago
I Can't Believe It. I Forgot to Read Jane Austen! by E. H. Jacobs I can’t help thinking about what I haven’t read. Every year, I try to read at least one piece of classic literature that I had overlooked, never got […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year ago
An Audio Book Report And Relevant Field Trip by Erika Raskin I listened (why hold a hefty book aloft when you don’t have to?) to Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions For You and shared the following […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year ago
Bonnie's Spell by Tonja Matney Reynolds Bonnie usually loved the drive to Aunt Edda’s house. She’d peer out the backseat window as her mother drove along the section of highway ove […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
White by Holly Day Once upon a time, there was a woman who wanted to have a baby. Or rather, this woman, named Jane, didn’t particularly care whether she had a baby at t […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
Lowcountry Tragedy by Erika Raskin First off, I’m just going to put right out there that I have been known to watch live courtroom TV like it’s a job, attending to whatever case is […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
Stay In Your Own Lane by Erika Raskin The back of my old CRV is adorned with a nearly forty year-old license plate (you can still read it if you squint in a certain light) and three […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 2 months ago
New Photography by William C. Crawford There is beauty (and aspects of interest) in most everyday things. I am not a technically gifted photographer, however, I like to tease out […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 year, 2 months ago
A Small Marvel by Trudy Hale After an eighteen-hour flight with a connection in Dubai, my daughter, Tempe, and I landed in Delhi. Throughout the trip I posted photographs on […]
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Emily Littlewood wrote a new post 1 year, 2 months ago
When Writing Isn't Fun Anymore by Lauren Sapala I was working with a new client who had come to me because she said she hated her writing life. As I sat with her on Zoom and asked her questions […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 2 months ago
Put Some Meat On Their Bones by Erika Raskin I once wrote a piece for Publisher’s Weekly about how even people who are terminally disorganized can craft novels. I offered a five-step […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 2 months ago
wish by Harry James The morning sun dappled the kitchen wall with an outline of wind-fumbled leaves loosely hanging on trees, cooking in the early morning heat. On […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
Fisher Samuel Harris Shows at McGuffey Art Center I didn’t start making art until after I’d graduated from college. While I never got much of an artistic education, it turns out that […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
My Wife Is In Love by E. H. Jacobs Five years ago, my wife fell in love. I’m not talking about me (we have been married thirty-nine years, so I hope the falling in love thing happened m […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
Duck Blind by Regina Guarino Across the narrow alley way between row houses, where trash cans totter and feral cats loiter, a window opens onto the neighbors’ kitchen. For o […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 4 months ago
Immersed by Caroline Kahlenberg People will say it was suicide, but you mustn’t believe them. They’ll say I looked normal at first, a tall woman with long black hair […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 year, 4 months ago
I had heard when you get older you revert to a lot of your tastes and activities when young, but I disregarded it, until I started buying old Joni Mitchell and Buffalo Springfield albums, and listening to the […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months ago
The Art of Kathleen Markowitz “I didn’t initially like abstract art,” admits artist Kathleen Markowitz, her vibrant paintings offering bursts of primary colors, suffused sur […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months ago
It’s not hard to sneak into the Manhattan Exclusion zone if you know what you’re doing. The Coast Guard mostly looks for the guys who don’t know what they’re doing—the ones who rush past Spuyten Du […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months ago
I’ve held season tickets on the fifty-yard line of health care for a long time, watching in alternating awe and horror at how medical interventions are provided. In the gratitude/wonder department, […]
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