by BlogEditor | Apr 4, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
Sonata by Julie Lockhart FollowFollowFollow C-sharp (#): Compositions in a minor scale, such as Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata in C# Minor,” can evoke a misty evening of sad contemplation, moody ruminations, even grief. When Michael lived with me before we married, I...
by BlogEditor | Apr 2, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
Grandma Helen by Stacy Alderman FollowFollowFollow The only picture I’d ever seen of my maternal grandmother was her wedding portrait. Its muted hues, her close-lipped smile, the bundle of blooms in her hands, were spread in canvas across a 10×12 frame, and this...
by BlogEditor | Feb 15, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
Educating Grandma by Marilyn Morgan FollowFollowFollow A product of the fifties, I grew up with Donna Reed, Pat Boone, and the most daring heartthrob of all, Elvis Presley. So when my fifteen-year-old granddaughter, Lia, said to me, “Grandma, I’m not a girl,” I felt...
by BlogEditor | Feb 14, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
Drawing Blood by Sherry Stratton FollowFollowFollow Blood draws have been hard on me my whole life. The medical techs tell me my veins are small. Sometimes they resort to a pediatric needle. And I’ve learned there’s such a thing as a “butterfly needle.” Once, I was...
by BlogEditor | Jan 30, 2024 | News & Events
Minerva Rising Winter Reading, February 21 FollowFollowFollow Join us for a triple book launch! Together, come listen to these three powerhouses read from their new books, How We Fracture by Karen George, Fig by Emily Wall, and Twenty-One Farewells by Emily Kerlin....
