by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
“There’s a disconnect between up here and down there,” my new acupuncturist said on our first date. “What is it about your body that you don’t want to hear?”She said this to me as she pointed first to my head and then to my achy bones. She said we have some work to...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
When I was seventeen, I met a striking young woman named Victorine Meurent. She wore her hair tied back in a blue ribbon and an embroidered white blouse. She had eyes like brown beach glass and a bold gaze that held me without blinking as we stared each other down,...
by Lindsey Grudnicki | Jun 24, 2013 | Blog, Staff Picks
I have had the pleasure of reading the latest issue of the online magazine Sugar Mule. Titled “No Place Like Home: Borders, Boundaries, and Identity in South Asia and Diaspora” and guest-edited by Soniah Kamal (one of our friends at the Atlanta Writers Club),...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
“But I can’t write fiction,” I heard myself say a few nights back as I hoisted myself up to the rim of the hot tub. School had just let out for the summer, and soaking in the heat, I felt the grind of the year dissolving into the mist. To jumpstart...
by Kim Brown | Jun 17, 2013 | Blog, Staff Blog
One of the best things I could have done for my writing was to take a painting class. Though it uses the same skills that I use as a writer, I’m less obsessed with the outcome. I’m more aware of thoughts that encumber my progress. I notice areas of resistance and...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Council for the Arts in my hometown of Jacksonville, North Carolina is the place where I want to be, especially on a Sunday afternoon four times a year. That’s the time when poets congregate to share their works at an Open Mike Reading. When...
by minervarising | Jun 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
I recently lost a very dear friend. Her death was unexpected and senseless and incredibly sad. While I don’t want to dwell on the sadness of her death, I think it’s important for me to acknowledge it because for several weeks I couldn’t. In my mind...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
I managed a ski shop awhile back. It was a fun, laid back, bro-talking industry – for a guy. But for a woman, it was an often sexist fight for recognition that wasn’t based on how tight my clothes were. Our mostly male customers seemed surprised I was...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 3, 2013 | Blog, Staff Blog
I hung the lonely pirate today, on the wall in my office. My mom bought it for me when she and Henry went to the Farnsworth Museum the spring before she got sick. She bought it for me because she said she thought of me when she saw it. The pirate looks defeated and...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | May 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Mom asks me regularly about my writing, in that sort of soft, “I-don’t-want-to-scare-you-off-by-sounding-too-intense-about-this-so-I’m-going-to-pretend-I-don’t-care-much-but-I-really-think-it’s-important” voice. Because when your mother is a...
