Streetlight Magazine | Spriggan Radfae | Friends Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/spriggan/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Spriggan Radfae's friends. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:11:32 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 835e5318554a2a3fe6e861d451ceab2b Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41356 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:49 -0400 Distances by Barbara Baer I’d already missed two periods before I went to Planned Parenthood in Berkeley. I knew the result before a woman asked if I wanted counseling. She h […]

]]> 7cda8dac5180a2474764ea54397320da Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41999 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:00:37 -0400 The Artful Constructs of Scott F. Smith by Russell Hart When photographer Scott Smith isn’t observing the world, he’s building one from scratch. Standing in his well-ordered studio at […]

]]> cf5135cd06dbeebd3e49d82f30eeaca5 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41976 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:00:19 -0400 Deconstructing Unicorns and Mermaids by Deborah M. Prum My four-year-old granddaughter, “Zoe”, lives out-of-state. We often meet via Zoom. She and I share a screen and explore her burning questions by […]

]]> 0b83e615c8f99ec7c7b887c8358640e6 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40703 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:00:53 -0500 Adrienne by Lisa Ben-Shoshan   She is a large woman. In another place or circumstance, she would have been the woman in the flowery housedress with fluffy mules on her feet. […]

]]> cedbba859127a0f7c21074c801ad08bb Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41663 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:00:36 -0500 Sefunmi Adeola's Focus on African Subjects Nigerian artist Sefunmi Adeola puts his sharp eyes to work as a photographer, illustrator and textile designer focusing on his African […]

]]> 69a80b31f53e263862ce91bb103a7b59 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41852 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:00:04 -0500 After the Blizzard by Trudy Hale We had warning. A dangerous blizzard sweeps across the eastern United States. Be prepared. The young man stacks firewood on my porch and in the […]

]]> d7305cdb5d7c5afcbb563b6cf1f15db3 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41115 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:00:33 -0500 Holding Onto The Past Through Fiction by Virginia Pye What happens to the homes where we once lived? Homes we left behind, in childhood when it wasn’t a choice, as an adult when it was necessary for w […]

]]> ad689e62e026c17257a61efd24aed0f4 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40707 Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:00:14 -0500 So Be It by Tyler Scott Spring. Finally. After several snowstorms, ice, and being stuck in the house for days on end, Louise couldn’t wait to get in her yard. The daffodils h […]

]]> e91310107e579ee8be343ba9aaed44c4 Elizabeth Howard started the topic Jim Henry Retrospective at McGuffey Art Center in the forum Art Shows & Exhibits https://streetlightmag.com/lamplighter-forum/topic/jim-henry-retrospective-at-mcguffey-art-center/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:41:33 -0500  


Sarah B. Smith Gallery
Jim Henry
Interference: A Retrospective of the Paintings of J.M. Henry
February 6 – March 1
This February, McGuffey Art Center celebrates the life and art of the late J.M.…[Read more]

]]> 05f81d790c54450344b156fe968eac00 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41759 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:00:48 -0500 Lisa Macchi: Disrupting the Paint by Russell Hart                        Lisa Macchi took twenty-five years off from art, but now she’s painting Charlottesville red.  Sitting in her McGuffey Art C […]

]]> 7550ea19c16b2d24f1bec81311d959f5 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40989 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:00:14 -0500 By Shirley's Side by Peter Wallace The sixty-year-old woman is sleeping at the moment, so I sit on a worn brown couch in the family waiting room down the hall from Shirley. It’s not t […]

]]> 39a58f15ed83ef2a6713a465d9c41c18 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41455 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:00:34 -0500 Fine Art and Craftsman Alan Box Levine “I’m always having a conversation with myself between art and craft. Art is for the heart and craft for the wallet,” says fine artist and fine craft […]

]]> 86d764b51fdf3ff52d3de19e6b5e93c7 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40508 Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:00:59 -0500 Cheesecake by Con Chapman Mark didn’t want to go to Jackie and Jonathan’s—he had too much studying to do before the end of the semester—but Marci insisted. “You can’t stu […]

]]> 52664aaaa341be0d769f85dbc2b5ac9a Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41535 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:00:50 -0500 Ho Ho Streetlight by Trudy Hale The season of Christmas swoops in, ahead of me and my best intentions. I’ll never be a person who has all the family and friends crossed off the l […]

]]> f4f84f23690f0bb95324c73caf36b811 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41231 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:00:30 -0500 What is Happening?!? by Emily Littlewood I used to laugh at my husband and call him old man (he’s nine years older) when he would reminisce on his childhood, and how much better it was than c […]

]]> bae3a18ffd8cc20dd2ce37a4ca716aba Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40576 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:00:43 -0500 Puppet and Master by Karris Rae   X/@/20X÷ Today the puppeteer cut my strings. Then he left without a word. It feels strange to move my arms on my own. I opened every plastic p […]

]]> b237ce8f370e1ccbb66bd88e013856a9 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41431 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:30:51 -0500 Complicity—A True Fiction Of Now by Erika Raskin Lissy is already dressed, her dolls arranged next to the bed in the space that is sometimes a boat, sometimes a park, and often a doctor’s office. T […]

]]> 5998bdf9a90190b9bb4d88b501177b4d Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39910 Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:00:44 -0500 Grater by Debby Mayer   “There’s something you should know,” was how he would put it. He would say this while she was doing something else—years later, in a Solana B […]

]]> 2d9a04bd016ce4ef31617d32fee02665 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40986 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:00:37 -0500 New Photography by Kate Salvi                         “I choose to take photos because I liked the idea of being able to stop time for a mo […]

]]> 29758bb76cacf0596a8a4b3bba1658ac Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41373 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:00:43 -0500 With a Little Help From My Friends by Trudy Hale In the pre-dawn morning, thirty-six hours before my daughter’s wedding, she enters my bedroom. Her flashlight beam wakes me. Good heavens. Half awake, […]

]]> 6bcd35d6838b391b15a0c47f9f1bbf01 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41142 Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:00:13 -0500 The Eclectic Photography of William C. Crawford   For many years my photography was travel-based, focusing on ghost towns and other places in glorious decline. Decay and rust attracted me […]

]]> 5c2f758864af0b40b3ab0c4cba92020c Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41076 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:00:23 -0400 The Taste of Copper Pennies by Tim Collyer Flash Fiction Tim Collyer is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Flash Fiction Contest Career Day smells of bleach and gravy. Wrong and familiar at […]

]]> 8730b3dbb7287cd3f06a44b01e17c32f Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41303 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:00:18 -0400 Night, Night Sleepy Heathen by Erika Raskin So, pretty much every old saw about old age is 100% true. There’s crepitus (the medical onomatopoeia-ous description of creaky joints), and the i […]

]]> c3e58a592a0f6445b04360badc21c442 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41089 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:00:38 -0400 A Special Place in Hell by Christine Wilcox Christine Wilcox is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Flash Fiction Contest “I’m not doubting you,” the Angel said to the Demon. “But wh […]

]]> 685950e7654ba69b410d9199e4db004e Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41260 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:00:59 -0400 The Wrong Turn On My Career Path, From Which I'm Still Recovering A Quarter Century Later by Erika Raskin Years ago, before I decided to bite the bullet and embrace the soul crushing rejection that often goes with Being A Writer, I decided to try my hand […]

]]> 52aeaca01c8f79f7f5451ef55acc129e Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40868 Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:00:43 -0400 Barbara MacCallum's Androgynous Art Artist Barbara MacCallum claims androgyny as her creative terrain. “I’m interested in male and female, nothing too macho or too feminine but the gap […]

]]> 82877f4e7e65ee12c15d34bcdb533970 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41125 Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:00:24 -0400 The Wedding Dress by Trudy Hale Weddings create their own weather. I had no idea. I did not have a big wedding myself. It was spontaneous and the only white article of clothing I had […]

]]> 31833467e623b6225bd511a5cf903fdd Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39578 Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:00:07 -0400 The Secret Garden by Irina Moga I am back in Seoul after a fourteen-hour flight, fresh off the airport shuttle and into the city center, at the Nine Tree Hotel check-in desk. It’s a […]

]]> aad44ebc27cd3f25cdfde1c69d1a47e9 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40984 Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:00:20 -0400 It’s Fall (ish) And The Flash Fiction Results Are In! by Erika Raskin and Mary Esselman   The school bus is squeaking past again, there’s a pumpkin/watermelon cage match in the produce aisle and — most critically — the annual influx […]

]]> c0da311092f79f4ac13bfd0e2fcfeb5d Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40993 Mon, 01 Sep 2025 07:00:48 -0400 What Do Dogs Do All Day? by Erika Raskin   Trixie Dougan Bijou Bellman was my mom’s dachshound when she was a kid. Though extremely short, Trixie had a rich and independent life. She […]

]]> bc3b7c16b617c83110fe1a47f771b504 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40261 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:00:02 -0400 Portraits by Nigerian Artist Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel   The portraits of Nigerian artist Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel reveal his empathy, respect and sensitivity to his subjects. “The suffering an […]

]]> 24c0b3e379d94f0e1d05e071b0bea0ac Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39939 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:00:16 -0400 We All Have Our Problems E. H. Jacobs   You and your wife are sitting in your therapist’s waiting room. You look at the door, paranoid that someone you know will come in and you’ll atte […]

]]> ec7ec2ac55dab771a176c50b8be17b08 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40753 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:00:16 -0400 To Be a New Yorker by Elizabeth Meade Howard   The train whistle trumpets its warning. I watch the woods, meadows and marshland slowly morph into urban views and city skylines. […]

]]> bf8e79916fb9561ce874dd02307e702f Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40807 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:00:51 -0400 To See the Universe in Cinderblock by Alex Joyner With all due respect, Mr. William Carlos Williams, it’s not the red wheelbarrow on which so much depends. It’s the cinder block car was […]

]]> 75824686be0398e0f77a68991b6af302 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40663 Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:00:45 -0400 The Photographs of Rachel Turney   Rachel Turney has traveled the world with curiosity and a camera. It all began in childhood. “I started taking pictures of houses in my Mi […]

]]> 7a628f72cae02441d346a33dbcb3ec68 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39748 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:00:21 -0400 HWY 20 at 30 Bottles a Minute by M. R. Whitt   I’d thank the heavens my shift is over but I can’t think straight long enough to do it. I don’t even remember pulling past the gates of the […]

]]> a291c9c26278300f82576ecaeb37b32c Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40242 Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:00:07 -0400 Prints by Nigerian Artist Ojo Olaniyi Nigerian printmaker and painter Ojo Olaniyi creates works that reflect his interest in social justice, identity, and community. He often depicts his […]

]]> 3764430e7abd9b9e74c6074c397fc927 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40688 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:00:34 -0400 Vacations are great, but . . . by Emily Littlewood We are going on the trip of a lifetime and the two parts of my personality are at war. Anxiety/control vs. procrastination/let it ride. It’s really […]

]]> a9602e6e8d3a91e1a0e6508062f07637 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40280 Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:00:28 -0400 Talk To Strangers by Bree Luck Two years ago, in the pocket of time between Thanksgiving and the onslaught of holiday chaos, I spent a week with my grandmother, Mimi, at her home on […]

]]> 8ec7fbf74238c59ba9ee93780304ac89 Jennifer Sims, Voice Actor wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40597 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:00:05 -0400 Thank you for Calling by Margaret Watson Streetlight Voices: Short Fiction & Memoir · Thank You For Calling by Margaret Watson Podcast: “Thank you for Calling” is a story about […]

]]> 5a3e1e1b3cd0222856bb88698725a857 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39640 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:00:24 -0400 Mulioo Tebe by Clare Rolens In June of 2007, I watched the movie Once with you. We’d rented the DVD from Blockbuster, the way people did then. We were twenty-one, so dinner m […]

]]> 2ef0e942d1d2de6b0eb486ee52f1d0b0 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40191 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:00:50 -0400 Don't Arrive Before You Get There by Deborah M. Prum My writing mantra used to be, Fine is good enough. I made sure whatever I sent out was the best it could be. However, I worked fulltime and was the […]

]]> 8656885f14c6750f076b7fbe449e76c9 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40520 Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:00:51 -0400 On Writing A Condolence Letter by Trudy Hale I find it hard to write a condolence letter, not a note, but a letter. And three condolence letters wait for me. They sit like black crows on a fence, […]

]]> a228ade666d692ddaf1de16fbe2409e7 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38669 Fri, 30 May 2025 12:00:20 -0400 The Spirit Room by Claire Massey The spirit room is cold, not morgue-cold but goosebump chilly from October on. Maddie zips her hoodie and pulls the under-desk heater dangerously […]

]]> 32d0d1bfe78df82b1c9083f837865146 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40304 Mon, 19 May 2025 12:00:08 -0400 Minimalist Photographs by Michael C. Roberts     Michael Roberts describes his delicately conceived photographs as “minimalist.” “Starting last fall,” Roberts remembers, “I wanted […]

]]> a19e7c709250894c878db12bcf15cf43 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40364 Mon, 12 May 2025 11:00:19 -0400 Ars Poetica by Trudy Hale The forsythia outside my window has given up the brilliant citrus yellow and is fading back to the sticky green leaves. I am trying to hold a dull […]

]]> bdf55e793ce4343866de349e700c23c0 Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39225 Fri, 09 May 2025 08:00:24 -0400 The Art of the Dealer by Eric Lande After lunch, Donald’s art dealer, Regina Slabokoff, entered his office in a state of agitated grace. Donald’s office had a style—a Mojo s […]

]]> a9dfa975da26bffd4d1fc941386b874d Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40029 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:00:00 -0400 Watercolors and Drawings by James Ellis   Watercolors came naturally to artist James Ellis. “The summer I finished elementary school I discovered my mom was taking a watercolor pa […]

]]> 7551ddc6ec75c6964bca6f8d9764dc4a Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40159 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:00:29 -0400 Comfort in the Unknown by Emily Littlewood Like a lot of people, I’ve dealt with health issues my whole life. I have cystic fibrosis, which comes with a cornucopia of symptoms, like d […]

]]> 39ce1e008a1dfdb9590fe278e6dc9faa Erika Raskin wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38800 Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:00:17 -0400 Hard Water by S. E. Wilson   The appointment was made for five-thirty so my wife Polly and I could both be there.  She worked in an office in town and I was working from h […]

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