Long forgotten articles, books no one reads and that failed to pay the rent, a child who wishes I had made other choices — another who’s absolutely thriving in said highly flawed system, indicating he’d probably have thrived in it from day — how exactly have I changed the world, th...
In 1890, Addy Cohart is determined to defy convention and remain unmarried-until she meets William Fairley, a psychic medium who gives her hope as she grieves the sudden death of her parents. Addy becomes a devotee of the spiritualist movement, but as she takes on a larger role as William...
My pottery teacher told me, What makes pottery precious is the fingerprints you leave in the clay. I don’t know what my parents did with the frog bowl I sculpted for them, but they made me sign the Dollarama frog I bought. They wanted to hold onto who it came from. This flawless ...
“Most of the poems are written from a place of spiritual longing, of wanting to live in a world of beauty and wholeness. But also, from a place of uncertainty, and being comfortable in the uncertainty.”– Heather Lanier “If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have ...
faculty position at the end of this semester, and, while, I will miss the adrenaline rush derived from helping make the world a better and more grammatical place, complete with perfect MLA-formatted citations where needed, I simply cannot wait for the newness of this next chapter in my ...
It’s hard being the sort of person who can find meaning in anything. Zan explains this when you ask him why he wants to be a writer. He snaps it out, the elevator pitch of a theater kid, which is what he was before he arrived to do a master of fine arts in creative writing. ...
All You Need To Do Is To Change Those Core Beliefs That Lead To Negative Thoughts, Which In Turn Create Your Worries And Fears. You may smile about the child who is afraid of the green monster in the closet, but most of the worries and fears of us adults are not any more real. ...
Without going outside to purloin positive roles of Pentecostal ministries, is it not within the possibility threshold of the novel’s plot to imagine that Pastor Uka could have played some good roles in giving Ike’s mother some emotional stilts to make meaning of her miserable existence? In ...
I loved the way they wrote – spidery cursive handwriting, the ink fading to a sepia color. I wish I had been old enough to ask the many questions I have in my brain today, about what they did with all those potions and lotions. I’d like to believe that they were true old-timey...
In Green Knowe, Toseland, or Tolly, is to spend Christmas with a great-grandmother he didn’t know he had, rather than languish at the rather dull boarding school where he normally lives, his parents being in Burma; in A Traveller in Time, the three Cameron children but Penelope in ...