This Kid by Kathleen McKitty Harris This is me in 1975, with one of my best friends: my grandparents’ dog Sandy. This kid became tough as fuck, even though she was scared to death f […]

Winners of 2023 Art Search Contest     This year’s Art Search Contest drew from a pool of talented artists far and wide. Their works included handsome photographs and l […]

Hot Guy From Photography Class by Alice Archer   The instant we walk into the next room, which is all photographs—black-and-white rocks casting shadows in a desert, dirty-faced Depression ki […]

Afterglow by Emily Littlewood My dog sits right next to me. He’s a fourteen-almost-fifteen year old soft-coated wheaton terrier. He’s recovering from another bout of pneumonia, onl […]

The Photography of Margo Hamilton and Ron Evans     Margo Hamilton and Ron Evans share a studio and a passion for photography. At their studio at the McGuffey Arts Center in C […]

The Pleasure of Ruins by Trudy Hale Not too long ago, I was walking my black lab down Norwood Road when an acquaintance stopped his truck to chat. He said he was concerned about my […]

Susan Northington Looks to the Horizon     The horizon line has long been a source of inspiration for landscape artist Susan Haley Northington. She remembers growing up in S […]

Allison Moves In by Margie Shepherd   Allison did not come to the decision to move in with Gregory lightly. She loved her little apartment, absolutely loved it. It was a source […]

Paintings by Vivian Calderón Bogoslavsky   When I was little, I was very restless at school, and the teachers made me leave the classroom, wander around and come back. When I came […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]