The Earthquake and my Brain By Domnica Radulescu FollowFollowFollow Time has been a long formless dough stretching from one end of the world to another, the days all mashed up into this mushy paste, Monday Sunday Thursday Monday all over again, it could be March it...
MINERVA’S DISPATCH: February News FollowFollowFollow Minerva Rising will be celebrating our 10th anniversary in 2022! -We have several exciting things planned. Sign up for our newsletter to receive all the latest news. Submissions will reopen February 10, 2022....
2021 Memoir Contest winner FollowFollowFollow Minerva Rising Press is pleased to announce the winner of the 2021 Memoir Contest, Janice Airhart’s Mother of My Invention: A Motherless Daughter Memoir. In a Fifties household, while everyone else’s mothers are vacuuming...
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel FollowFollowFollow The Secret to Superhuman Strengthby Alison Bechdel Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,May 2021$24.00 (Hardcover)978-0-544-38765-2 Book Review by Rebecca Beardsall Struggling to sit up as my abs rebel...
The Push by Ashley Audrain FollowFollowFollow The Pushby Ashley Audrain Pamela Dorman BooksJanuary 2021$26, hardcover978-1984881663 Book Review by Colleen Lutz Clemens “Page-turner.” When I press The Push into people’s hands, I use this phrase to describe Ashley...
Raised in Ruins by Tara Neilson FollowFollowFollow Raised in Ruinsby Tara Neilson Alaska Northwest Books April 2020$16.99 (paperback)978-1-5132-6263-5 Book Review by Rebecca Beardsall Opening with a brown bear stalking the house, Raised in Ruins, a charming, dynamic...
Tuning Into the Body’s Wisdom FollowFollowFollow We are faced with big and small choices on a daily basis. The decision to take an exciting new job that comes with a lot of responsibility, or choosing to leave a familiar long term relationship that is fraught with...
The Acceptance and Change Continuum FollowFollowFollow Quieting down and tapping into inner wisdom requires many things, but one of the most profound is working with acceptance and change. Life hands us so much chaos, and we can create plenty of our own. How do we...
Find a Comfortable Seat FollowFollowFollow In almost every yoga class, before moving into the sequence of shapes, the instructor starts with a prompt to notice what you are sitting on or focus on your breath. These are different ways of grounding. In this first piece...
Cultivating Inner Wisdom by Irene MCGarrity FollowFollowFollow Finding small ways to cultivate joy and connect with our inner wisdom. Through life struggles, trauma, and cultural conditioning. We lose touch with our own inner guide. Cultivating Inner Wisdom is an...