by minervarising | Jul 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
I have kept very quiet this week in the wake of the Zimmerman trial verdict. I have read many a tweet, article, reaction, and analysis of what happened and why. I am a person who largely keeps my head in the sand regarding current events and world news because I...
by minervarising | Jul 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
This week’s blog is written by Maria Caballero, a summer intern from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She is majoring in English, with an emphasis on writing, and will be spending the fall studying abroad in Canterbury, England. On December...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Every summer I go on a retreat with a group of writers. We met when we were students in a creative writing MFA program at Goddard College. Five of us travel from the edges of the country to meet on tiny Decatur Island, in the San Juan Islands, to talk shop and lend...
by minervarising | Jul 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
At The Fairmont Acapulco Princess hotel’s outdoor lobby in Acapulco, Mexico. The lobby’s view is nothing short of breathtaking with many carved stone pillars. The pillars are covered from floor to ceiling in Aztec symbols and stand several stories high. I...
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,...
