Mentor, enduring friend, and poet comrade. How I miss him. Fragments of poetry, riffs of music, fleeting images from the prairie world of his Wyoming childhood, amusing things his neighbors said . . .Tony loved to collect the lyrical and quickly fleeting things of this world. As a poet and photographer, he captured all he…
Category: Non-fiction
The Few and the Proud by Katelea Diaz
Have you even been so exhausted that nothing else seems to matter? It starts with a plane ride from your hometown to a small airport in Georgia, then a long bus ride to an island. This starts the most unconventional all-expense paid 13-week vacation. If you want to call it that. The yelling starts as…
A Moms’ Perspective by Veronica Hook
My expectations looking forward to becoming a new mom were unrealistic and unhealthy. My original, unprepared thoughts were: “This is going to be great! I get to dress them up in adorable little clothes, cuddle, have snacks, and live happily ever after! Easy Peasy!” Isn’t this what the movies and books portrayed for my generation?…
Personal Essay by Valerie Hartgenbush
“My 30th birthday is coming up. What do you think about skydiving with me?” my younger brother, Richard asked me and our two sisters. “No way!” my oldest sister, Ann, said. “I won’t jump but I will watch you do it,” my second sister, Cher, said. “I’m totally in! Tell me what I need to…
Swimming Upstream by Shannon Foster
I have spent most of my life focusing on what I cannot do. Being neurodivergent in a world designed for neurotypical people has been exhausting and discouraging. I am like a fish out of water, gasping for breath, waiting to be placed back into my natural habitat. I have been caught on the hook of…
Important Pieces by Shannon Foster
Important pieces of me have been hidden or even extinguished by my own mind. Having severe depression for most of my life has left many paths untrodden, many opportunities untaken. I did not have the chance to develop some of the gifts I have been given, or test the waters of untapped potential to find…
A Trip to The Mountains by Katie Aguirre Castaneda
The little girl sat in the backseat of the jeep. The tires spinning and turning as the car pushed forward. The cool summer breeze blew against her, as her shoulder length hair flew around in the wind. The little girl bickered with her older brother as the jeep followed the curvy road. Her parents sitting…