“…emerging research indicates that PMDD is due to a cellular genetic malfunction in the brain.”
Menopause in Young Adulthood 101 by Louise Bell
Category: Issues
The Source by J B Allen
At fifty-nine, prostate cancer migrated to the brain, Ray Allen fell asleep…
Catching the Bus by Laila Miller
My brother took the school bus once. It was after he’d quit school, on a Monday in May when his Galaxie 500 wouldn’t start….
INTERVIEW: John West, Author of Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery
The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly.
INTERVIEW: Melissa L. Sevigny, Author of Brave the Wild River
Initially, I thought, “Oh, I’ll write a short little article and be done with this and move on.”
INTERVIEW: Cassandra Jackson, Author of The Wreck & Jasmine Brown, Author of Twice As Hard
Each of these stories braid extensive grit, disempowerment, Black women, erasure, ancestry, and the medical community into a seamless whole.
INTERVIEW: Morgan Baker, Author of Emptying the Nest: Getting Better at Goodbyes
Finding your voice comes with self-confidence and experience. I don’t think this is what I sounded like a long time ago.
REVIEW: Small Off Things: Meditations from an Anxious Mind by Suzanne Farrell Smith
In lyrical prose, the collection of brief essays examines subjects both commonplace and profound.
REVIEW: Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived by Karen DeBonis
The memoir chronicles a mother’s transformational change as she advocates for her child through chronic illness.
REVIEW: The In-Betweens by Davon Loeb
The memoir is a beautiful and at times devastating account of the author’s coming of age as a mixed-race person.
