The Long Road of Blog
“It’s as though I were living at last in my eyes, as I have always dreamed of doing, and I think then I know why I’ve come here: to see, and so to go out against new things—oh god how easily—like air in a breeze. It’s true there are moments—foolish moments, ecstasy on a tree stump—when I’m all but gone, scattered I like to think like seed…”
William Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
My Daughter Talks About Her Brain and Adoption -- Guest Blog Post by Keats Iwanaga
I can’t write about adoption. I’m so glad that there are so many of you who do. I can only write about isolation and loneliness and how I’ve tried to maintain a tight grasp on hope despite these feelings. I won’t tell you it’s not hard. It’s hard. Some days it’s really hard.
The Relinquished Baby's Billboard Brain
If your brain is constantly telling you that you are about to die, guess what? You create situations, consciously or not, to prove this true.
The Story Under the Story, my Class with Robyn Gobbel, Part 1
To feel compelled to write your story and to feel you have permission to tell it are two very different things.
On Reading Gregg Levoy's book "Callings. Finding and Following an Authentic Life"
What happens when you calm the wild in your mind to open to the silence?
Something Definitely Happened Here--Guest Blog Post by Ruth Steele--Part 2
What I can say is that in addressing my adoption, I have had to rethink what I am.
You Could Not Pay Me to Adopt a Child Because I Do Not Want A Hungry Ghost in My House
If you gave me a trillion dollars tomorrow, I bet I could spend it and enough to get me into debt by next Friday.
Love and Loss and Love Again--guest blog post by Julian Washio-Collette
One day I hope to see my disappearing acts blossom into a superpower. I hope to discover that overcoming my greatest fear and embracing the devastating losses of my past plunges me into intimate contact with a world that is always dying, always being born anew.
How Do I Show You (and Myself) How I Feel? Snap!
It’s confusing when part of feeling alive also involves destruction.
Deanna Shared This With Me and I Laughed My Head Off and I Asked if She Would Share-- Guest Blog Post by Deanna Freeman
Writing a report for work.
The task is officially accepted. Time to shit myself ever so slightly.
Stealing the Troll -- guest blog post by Julia Richardson
Stealing caused me the most pain and gave me the most satisfaction.
MEGAPHONE VOICE and Flourish
The other day in our Flourish class, we talked about the MEGAPHONE VOICE, the voice you carry perhaps in your sternum that comments (INSIDE) on life as you lead it with your, as Ron said, strap-on face (somewhat) firmly in place.
Confronting Stigma in Literature (As Told by a Teenage Author) -- Guest Blog Post by Myles R.
I want my story to be liked for its plot, its characters, and its dialogue. I don’t want somebody to dislike my characters purely because they are non-binary or of non-Caucasian heritage. Essentially, race and sexuality will be almost entirely ambiguous.