All how-I-came-to-love-nature stories begin with childhood, so here we go to the 90s. I was the sort of kid with galactic dolphin posters, and I was the sort of kid…
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Image: The author, mid 1990s The man who got me pregnant in the spring of 1994 was a massage therapist named Steve Swetman. He had a carpeted 2-bedroom house…
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We didn’t have a hummingbird feeder because I was scared that I would poison the birds. You have to be vigilant, sites for would-be hummingbirders warn, and clean the feeder…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Why does the sun go on shining? Why does the sea rush to shore? Don’t they know it’s the end of the world? Cause you don’t love me anymore. (Skeeter…
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Image Credit: Council of Foreign Relations From the moment you knew your legs did not extend down the sofa when you sat up straight, from the time you realized…
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Image Credit: photos (Stephanie Astrow); design (Lilly Astrow) Teaching under any circumstances, dire or otherwise, is largely about holding back. You love your students, of course. That’s a prerequisite.…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayIntrospectionMusicVariations on a Theme: I almost lost my calloused skin
editor’s note: After a long hiatus, Variations on a Theme is returning with quite a fitting story. We almost lost our calloused skin on our proverbial musician’s fingertips but are…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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In my kids’ yoga classroom on the Lower East Side, two hundred elementary school girls still in their uniforms take the shape of a cow. Knees under hips, hands under…
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Chapter of possible or impossible endings: My brother steadies his mental state with mega doses of B vitamins and fish oil. He sleeps in an enclosed space and washes his…
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Tales From the End of the Bus Line is a long-distance collaboration between daughter/father Megan and Bill Broughton to collect the many adventures of Bill’s young adulthood in Van Nuys, California.…
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Image Credit: Lee Seung Ho The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. -Isak Dinesan Mama is a jomnyeo. Her breath is her livelihood. She…
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Image Credit: Side-street in Staroměstská, Prague. Taken on B&W Fomapan 400 by Lu Gallagher. On a Sunday evening in Malostranská, returning from Shakespeare a Synové where I had just…