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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 6 months ago
I’ve had the honor of officiating many weddings over the past two decades. They’ve all been beautiful in their way, but more often than not the vows exchanged have been—naive, to say the least. I know min […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 7 months ago
It was about 2:45 a.m., and Sherin George sat miserably on a ratty sofa in a cabin in rural Uttarakhand State in North India. She was exhausted and wanted nothing more than to lie down and sleep, b […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 7 months ago
People have lost their minds.
Seriously.
They’re comparing masks to yellow stars and saying vaccine passports are signs of tyranny, refusing to comply as a sign of resistance.
Please.
My dog […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 2 years, 7 months ago
Art creation is an organic process for me, where inspiration takes the lead and my hands merely follow. The traditional media in my repertoire includes pen, colored pencil, and acrylic paint. I am also […]
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Elizabeth Howard replied to the topic Chroma Opens October Show in the forum Trudy 2 years, 7 months ago
“Pandemonium: Postcards from the Edge“ asks artists to take an ordinary U.S. Mail postcard and paint, draw or mark it in some way. The resulting missives can focus on the political, societal or public health events that have rocked our collective world since March 2020, or they can highlight an artist’s individual practice in isola…[Read more]
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Emily Littlewood wrote a new post 2 years, 7 months ago
Do you constantly compare yourself to other writers?
Do you set goals for yourself as a writer and then somehow fall short of them every time?
Do you start new writing practices full of enthusiasm, but then […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 7 months ago
Aunt Maggie laughs with a Marlboro Red clamped between her lips. A metallic party hat sits atop her matted, white hair, fastened with a cheap elastic band under her turkey-wattle chin. Today s […]
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Elizabeth Howard commented on the post, Once Upon a Time In Montecito by Trudy Hale 2 years, 8 months ago
Love this!
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Elizabeth Howard commented on the post, How to Weigh Loss by Charlotte Matthews 2 years, 8 months ago
Such an evocative and beautiful poem.
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 8 months ago
“I’m going to tweet about this, and I need every single English-speaking celebrity on the planet to retweet my tweet. This is monstrous.”
We are stopped at a red light. Devon, my husband of ten ye […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 2 years, 8 months ago
Michael Snyder has traveled the world, camera in hand, documenting the stories of those concerned with environmental change and sustainability and the spaces they inhabit.
“I want to be very inte […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 8 months ago
Once again we have had the good fortune to be invited into other worlds, each unfurled in just 500 words. The skill involved in presenting backstory and insight—with minimal description—is great.
And, as […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 2 years, 9 months ago
In the quarantined Covid year of 2020, I returned to exploring the figure in my mixed media paintings. Even though it’s been years since I’ve used the human figure as a subject, I’ve always consi […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 9 months ago
There’s this Tree. It’s a Cottonwood. It’s been there longer than forever, a gentle, generous tower on the long green lawn in front of the dorms. Three decades ago, when I was still teaching at the colle […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 9 months ago
Monday for Mom was splat day. She was working on splats up until her last few days. We talked about the splatforms a lot in her last few months. About a week ago she asked if I would write a splat about what […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 10 months ago
The first year of the pandemic lockdown was the worst for Frankie and PJ. Most of their time was spent worrying about the health of Frankie’s Mom and then PJ’s Mom and then as it turned out all that […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 2 years, 10 months ago
I cannot separate drawing from writing. Without drawing swallows, I cannot write spring. I am self-taught in art. I am always a student. I observe, I dream and I draw.
I grew up and live in Ankara, Turkey. […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 10 months ago
That’s actually me. I have four kidneys. I joke about it, but with great feeling for what they each signify. Two are native, gifted by my parents. The others are from two donors who saved my life with their o […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 10 months ago
It will be a year, he says.
The sun behind her covers the barman and his wall of drinkery in rosey light. A ceiling fan stirs fry-oil and lemon around them, but she still feels slick with sweat on her face […]
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Emily Littlewood wrote a new post 2 years, 11 months ago
A proposed 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project introduced in the House of Representatives last month is gaining broad support from literary and writers’ organizations hard hit by the Covid pandemic.
The bil […]
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