by BlogEditor | Sep 2, 2025 | Creative Nonfiction, Featured Post
Hurts So Good by Tanya Bowers FollowFollowFollow Photo by Hans Vivek on Unsplash I have a crush on my massage therapist. It’s not that I am particularly attracted to her. She’s good-looking, but she isn’t my type. At the beginning of our standing appointment, I...
by BlogEditor | Aug 25, 2025 | Creative Nonfiction, Featured Post
Invisible by Cynthia Gilmore FollowFollowFollow Photo by Timon Studler via Unsplash Old women are invisible. But in a way, it’s our superpower. Not chosen but imposed upon by a culture enamored of youth. A wrinkle-free obsession that suffers our presence with...
by BlogEditor | Aug 18, 2025 | Featured Post
Star Days by Loie Rawding FollowFollowFollow Photo by Alexandra Fuller via Unsplash The Folgers instant coffee reminds me of my mother’s parents, now dead. The hard chunks of processed bean disintegrate with unsettling speed. This could be said of the way they showed...
by BlogEditor | Nov 30, 2021 | Featured Post, Poetry
Emily Patterson is a curriculum designer, poet, and mother. She holds a B.A. in English from Ohio...
by BlogEditor | Aug 4, 2021 | Featured Post, Poetry, The Keeping Room, Uncategorized
I. Beautiful day for war, fields of yellowing leaves speckled with black spots buffering centuries of secrets stuck in the soil whispering to any root that’ll listen to its’ stories. Put down your weapons, pick up your ploughs. II. The earth has never faltered under...
by BlogEditor | Aug 2, 2021 | Creative Nonfiction, Featured Post, The Keeping Room
My birthday twin died today. I knew almost nothing about him, except that he and I were born on the exact same date. We were the same age until around 11am this morning when I began to grow steadily older than him. Every morning at the hospital where I work as a...
