Image Credit: Stefan Keller from Pixabay Papa had the curious custom of planting a seed in the garden of our home after every person who had grown dear to him. The…
spirituality
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On Route 17M, heading toward New Jersey for Aunt Mary’s wake, my father asks me to keep an eye on the pond at the Goshen exit. At 70 mph, I…
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* * * resurrection sunday (during the 2020 pandemic) It was 7 am easter sunday i was sitting and sipping tea when a cardinal landed on the balcony, two more…
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ConversationFeaturedInterviewPoetry
“Staging the end of a limiting self”: A Conversation with Mike Soto
by Joe Milazzo September 3, 2020When Mike Soto and I talk, we rarely talk about poetry. Especially during basketball season. But I always learn a lesson or two from Mike when the conversation does turn…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Peligro: Danger and a Higher Power Just North of Nashville
by Guest Contributor February 4, 2020Image Credit: Richie Bautista Ramon towers above me. DANGER. PELIGRO: Do Not Stand On Or Above This Rung, the stickers below his feet read. He waves for the leaf blower…
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What is a question that has stayed with you through time, clung to you like an inhalation? What is a question that pulls you out from syncope? For me, it…
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Image Credit: Dev Murphy My mother called me last week to tell me she had dreamed of her sister Christy’s trip to the hospital before it happened. Minor illness.…
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ArtComicsFeatured
The New Comics: David Mahler, “Collective Consciousness”
by Guest Contributor May 2, 2019DAVID MAHLER is an Australian filmmaker and visual artist based in Melbourne. Selected by the City of Melbourne to partake in the 2017 Signal Screen Arts Commission, he has…
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There are lots of self-help and wellness blogs out there. Oftentimes, bloggers use their digital accomplishments—i.e. lots of social media followers and/or a freewheelin’ digital nomad lifestyle—as a platform to…
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ConversationFeaturedFictionInterview
“Look at grace head on and it was never there”: A Conversation with Paul Cohen
by Joe Milazzo September 6, 2017Appropriately enough, I finished reading Paul Cohen’s The Glamshack in the middle of a heatwave that temporarily turned Eugene, Oregon into Memphis, Tennessee. My wife and I had traveled to…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayMusic
Faith: A Highly Personal and Tangential Etymology
by Josh Coblentz January 7, 2015Growing up with a mother who regularly taught Sunday School meant that I didn’t get to skip church much as a child. Faith was a word that circled around me…