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Category Archives: Essays

<strong>Happy 10th Birthday, Bloom!</strong>
Essays / Features / Nonfiction

Happy 10th Birthday, Bloom!

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Lisa Peet • 4 Comments

by Lisa Peet

Celebrating youth has been around as long as people have been counting candles, and it hasn’t fallen out of vogue yet. But I see more respect out there for older creators than I did 10 years ago. Continue reading →

<em>An Overgrown Life</em>
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An Overgrown Life

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Alice Stephens • 4 Comments

We planted the flower beds next to our front door with weeds—a small act of aggression, perhaps. Milkweed and Joe Pye Weed, host plants to several kinds of butterflies, flourished there. Continue reading →

Younger: Uncoupling Age from Aging by Paulette Kamenecka
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Younger: Uncoupling Age from Aging by Paulette Kamenecka

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Bloom • Leave a comment

by Paulette Kamenecka

I came to think of myself as a traveler who’d picked up a pack of diseases through miscalculation or poor judgment—drinking the water in a place I shouldn’t have. Continue reading →

The Note
Essays / memoir

The Note

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Alice Stephens • 1 Comment

I sat with the note in my lap, stunned and glad to be alone in the kitchen. The laundry gave me something to do with my hands while I settled my mind. Continue reading →

Beginner’s Mind vs. the Dark House
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Beginner’s Mind vs. the Dark House

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Lisa Peet • 4 Comments

by Lisa Peet

I craved—I still crave—transcendence, some kind of transformation to click through the plodding circuits in my brain and fire them up again, one by one, turning the lights back on. Continue reading →

Don’t Just Pass ‘Em By
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Don’t Just Pass ‘Em By

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Alice Stephens • 3 Comments

By Martha Anne Toll

“It came in a sudden gust, the thought that I could give it all up, throw everything overboard, ditch the career in social justice that I truly loved and that was close to forty years in the making, and do what had been calling me for decades: write full time.” Continue reading →

On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France
Essays / Features / Nonfiction

On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Alice Stephens • 1 Comment

by Martha Anne Toll

Despite vast differences in wealth, status, ancestry, time, and setting, the eight-year-old girl in John Singer Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit haunts me. Why? Continue reading →

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