Nicknames
Several months into our relationship, my boyfriend began calling me Skillet.
Appalachian Dispatches by Tamara MC, Ph.D.
Honorary Citizen. Two complaints in twenty-eight months and the building inspector says the two-foot Jedi has to go inside.
10 wonderfully weird festivals to add to your bucket list this year
Shred an air guitar in Finland. Have an epic water fight in Thailand. Slice rival kites from the sky in India. These celebrations invite you to revel in the wacky.
Object-ives #16: The Inheritance I Bought
A dead woman’s milk glass collection became the family heirloom I never had
Book Review of a Well-trained wife: My escape from christian patriarchy
Tia Levings’s powerful memoir, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy, delivers a searing critique of patriarchal religious systems through the lens of her own harrowing journey. As a Gen […]
Between Memory and Geography: Julie Brill’s Hidden in Plain Sight
A few words by the author: Brill’s Hidden in Plain Sight is not a conventional Holocaust memoir; rather, it is an act of literary cartography – mapping the landscapes of exile, inherited trauma, and historical erasure. She takes readers on a journey through Belgrade, where her family’s history is embedded in its streets and architecture, and where memory itself is both visible and hidden in the spaces between past and present.
Bubbe’s Potato Latke Grater
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and refugee who, after the war, was given a choice of three destinations. She chose the United […]
On Guinevere Turner’s “When the World Didn’t End”
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! ON JANUARY 5, 1975, when Guinevere Turner was seven, the world was supposed to end. She grabbed her favorite toy and donned […]
‘Uncultured’: The Intergenerational Trauma of Girls Growing up in Cults
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Daniella Mestyanek Young’s powerfully immersive and exceptionally honest debut memoir Uncultured opens with a scene of Young standing in line to get […]
Embracing Challenges: A Review of Ain’t That a Mother: Postpartum, Palsy, and Everything in Between
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Purchase Adiba Nelson’s debut memoir, Ain’t That a Mother: Postpartum, Palsy, and Everything in Between, for the book jacket alone and clutch it under your arm […]