by Emily Shearer | Mar 10, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
Recent research has shown that the more you smile, the more you smile. Muscle memory creates pathways and patterns in the 200+ facial muscles summoned up every single time you smile. And chemicals react to those muscles, eliciting feelings of happiness that would...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Mar 7, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
We writers who work full-time at non-writing jobs face countless obstacles in our quest for a few hours of peace and quiet. I’ve come to believe that being an English teacher may be one of the worst jobs of all, as my struggle to read and assess stacks of...
by minervarising | Mar 3, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
In my family lore, there’s a story that my maternal grandfather wanted to marry my grandmother in an impulsive romantic gesture before he left for Hawaii to start his World War II tour. My ever-practical grandmother refused to marry him until he returned from the war...
by Kim Brown | Feb 21, 2014 | Blog, Staff Blog
We’re thrilled to introduce the winners of the 2014 Daring To Be The Woman I Am Chapbook Contest: Laura Cherry for her poetry collection Two White Beds: Millie and Sam Judith Arcana for her long short story Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture Their chapbooks...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Feb 19, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
My husband and I have slowly replaced all of our loudly ticking wall clocks with silent ones. The announcement of quickly passing seconds was freaking me out. We all have too much to do, between family life, working and chores, not to mention trying to find time to...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Feb 9, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Sunday’s paper brought news of one of the first Olympic gold wins in Sochi for the Americans, a victory for snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg. After a self-proclaimed “megadrought” of wins for the 20 year-old, he “kept it weird,” and impressed the judges. Afterwards, he...
by minervarising | Feb 6, 2014 | Blog
After a snowstorm drops a foot or more of snow in our rural neighborhood, I strap on snowshoes and go for a “shoe.” I set out to break trail and see what I can see in our 14-acre woodlot. Often this trek leads me to an old logging road. It twists and turns up the side...
by minervarising | Feb 3, 2014 | Blog, Issues
ISSUE 4 – MOTHERS: This issue of Minerva Rising is a powerful tribute to the connection we feel to our mothers and our children. Each story, poem, essay, and picture is a testimony to the influence these relationships have on our creativity. In “Cyberattack,”...
by minervarising | Feb 3, 2014 | Blog, Staff Picks
Reviewed by Lindsey Grudnicki In her debut collection of short fiction, Vanessa Blakeslee offers a frank look at the defining trials – from the small inconveniences to the traumatic, inescapable events – of human life. Through eleven skillfully-written portraits, she...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Feb 2, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Here is how I know for sure that my maker is a woman and one with a wicked sense of humor. Girlfriend saw fit to match me – the wordiest of wordy women – with my mate…surely the most indifferent, heedless, hapless, (okay, I’ll say it) unskilled communicator who ever...
