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…
Creative Nonfiction / Essay
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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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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedFilm
WOVEN: Scenes From My Youth
by Guest Contributor February 10, 2021WOVEN 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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Creative Nonfiction / EssayIntrospectionLetterMusic
Variations on a Theme: The End of the World
by Guest Contributor February 9, 2021Why 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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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
HOPE AND THE THIRD HOOD: LAGOS EXPERIENCES
by Guest Contributor February 9, 2021Image 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 / EssayIntrospectionMusic
Variations on a Theme: I almost lost my calloused skin
by Guest Contributor February 2, 2021editor’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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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Tales From the End of the Bus Line: Aging Ungraciously
by Megan and William Broughton January 18, 2021Tales 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…