The kids call the room “the meat locker.” It’s the only academic classroom in the basement…
Triage Teacher by Patricia Dubrava
Category: Issues
Is Danger My Middle Name? by Lee Stoops
I have stopped my motorcycle – killed the engine and jumped from it…Something on the road has grabbed my attention and my adrenaline floods
Almost Martyred for the Wrong Faith by Ian Rastall
Dr. Patel thought the Baha’i book I lugged through the psych ward all day was a Qur’an. So did the young Lutheran minister …
Charlie the Couch Takes the Final Plunge by Claire Asbury
We, the girls, had discovered Charlie – and christened him such – at the start of sophomore year of college.
Interview: Natalie Goldberg, author of The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
I have a shelf-full of books about the technical aspects of writing; books on creating characters, how to plot a novel, how to market your book. But it has always been author Natalie Goldberg who has brought us down to earth and made writing real in her renowned Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer…
The Writing Life: Cutthroat, For the Love of Words by Lisa Ahn
As a writer and a reader, I’m a scavenger of words, their roots sunk deep in time. I dig through layered meanings, brush the ragged edges of long-forgotten definitions, frilled and feathered connotations.
Laughing in Navajo: My Journey to the Rez by Dorothy Brooks
I’d plopped myself down almost two-thousand miles from my snug Midwestern life on a sight-unseen Navajo Reservation in the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico.
Wet, Dead Leaves by Shannon Fandler
Sean Dell was not like the other English majors at my small and not particularly diverse Catholic college. For one, he was older than most students..
Honorary Sister by Kevin Scott Phillips
I’ve never been what you would call manly. I’m short, kind of nerdy, never particularly athletic, unless you count a one-time, third-place finish in a regional Ping-Pong tournament…
Shattered by the Wars (an excerpt) by Hi-Dong Chai
The marching North Korean soldiers, with their machine-like precision and with rifles on their shoulders, were gone.
