by BlogEditor | Mar 26, 2025 | Creative Nonfiction, Featured Post
While It’s Still Possible by Sherry Stratton FollowFollowFollow Photo by author I knew Mom couldn’t remove her wedding and engagement rings. Literally, could not get them off: the knuckle of her ring finger was swollen way beyond the size of the rings. Her other...
by BlogEditor | Mar 19, 2025 | Creative Nonfiction, Featured Post
That Irresistible Pull by Karen Skalitzky FollowFollowFollow Photo by Kilyan Sockalingum via Unsplash “I want to be more interesting,” I tell my friend two days after I turned 55. We are sitting in the balcony at the Chicago Symphony Center, eager for a brilliant...
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...
by BlogEditor | Jul 6, 2021 | Featured Post, Poetry, The Keeping Room
Hymn Thirsty for aPleistoncene morning, I’m a graying creaturetrotting in & out of shadows. I rest deep in the dark belly of my backyard ravine. ...
