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Connection, Not Perfection

“You know people plan these things a full year in advance,” a good friend of mine pointed out. Her calendar was filling up with work and family commitments. She found…

Calling Home | September 2015 | By Ona Gritz


Essential Reading: The Gift of Time

What would you choose if you were granted the gift of free time to read? This month our colleagues share their fantasy reads.

Essential Reading, Literary Reflections | September 2015 | By Justine Uhlenbrock


Radical Compromise as Redress: A Review of Katherine Bode-Lang’s The Reformation

The boldfaced recap of her sexual and reproductive life reminds readers of the personal questions and assumptions they bring to the manuscript—about women, about married people, about the measures used…

Reviews | September 2015 | By Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers


A Conversation with Candy Schulman

I kept writing about my mother: her memory loss, physical incapacities, and the reversing roles when an aging parent begins to depend on a daughter. The consistent theme that emerged…

Profiles | September 2015 | By Caryn Mohr


Mothering in the Face of Adversity: A Review of Silent Running by Robyn K. Schneider with Kate Hopper

Robyn K. Schneider’s memoir, Silent Running: Our Family’s Journey to the Finish Line with Autism, shows that as mothers, we can handle almost anything—including conditions that initially seem to threaten…

Reviews | September 2015 | By Caryn Mohr


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Holding Pattern

The doctors and nurses tell me to try to hold onto the baby, to keep him inside of me and not go into labor, but they don’t tell me how.…

Creative Nonfiction | September 2015 | By Susanne Markgren


Michelle Dzema. michellegd@comcast.net, michellegd.com

Absence Makes the Heart

In my dreams you’re younger than you are now, everything about you soft and vulnerable. Now you stiffen when I reach for you, your face clenched and brittle, your eyes…

Creative Nonfiction | September 2015 | By Jennifer Hudak


Driving Under the Influence

In the car, I smell his night on him: beer, cigarettes, sweat, and the sad slurry of youthful stupidity and a concrete cell. I turn on the air. He leans…

Fiction | September 2015 | By Joan Pedzich


Reader Response to Birthing the Mother Writer Class 5: The Spectrum of Creative Nonfiction

In our last class before summer break, we explored creative nonfiction as a spectrum that incorporates elements of poetry, fiction, and various nonfiction strategies such as research, journalism, memoir, and…

Birthing the Mother Writer | September 2015 | By Cassie Premo Steele


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Imprinting

Then one night I heard her remark, quite casually in the bath, ”I’m a bad kid.” I felt like someone had poured a bucket of ice water over my head.…

The Wild Things | September 2015 | By Beth Malone


Uncharted

Who are you? / A mother should know. // I don’t, I swear.

Poetry | September 2015 | By Marietta Brill


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