Unspeakable Heartbreak.
A girl came up to me in my second yoga class yesterday morning, shaking. She had started to cry and said that since Friday all she could do was think about coming to my class, that it would soothe her....
View ArticleYou Came to Ride The Train.
These vehicles vast like the hollows of a secret stuffed in a wooden leg ignite in me something. I can’t name it yet. But I’m on the train, I’m moving. Just because I can’t name it doesn’t mean it...
View ArticleRemembering How To Be Human by Erin Telford.
Remembering How To Be Human I had a glorious, profound experience this past weekend. I flew to Oregon to surprise my amazing mama for Mother’s Day. Since my visit was unexpected, she was already on...
View ArticleWhen You Finally Forgive.
I suppose almost everyone who writes is afflicted some of the time by the suspicion that nobody out there is listening ~Joan Didion ** Its like this: You get on the bus, you get off, you get on. Its...
View ArticleSelma Swelter.
By Travis Turner. She asked me the night before she left, why I could never leave. Why I never mustered the courage to get out. Was I so scared to go? I could never give her an answer. Until now,...
View ArticleDear Life: I Am Afraid I Will Lose Everything.
Welcome to Dear Life: An Unconventional Advice Column. Your questions get sent to various authors from around the world to answer (and please keep sending because I have like 567 writers that want to...
View ArticleOn Fear & Beauty: One Man’s Thoughts.
Note from Jen: Peter Tóth has been following me for a while on social media so it was a huge honor to have him schlep all the way to London to attend my workshop. He wrote this beautiful post after...
View ArticleTo the Woman Who Wants to Forgive Her Cheating Partner.
By Erica Garza. To the Woman Who Wants to Forgive Her Cheating Partner, I’m not here to reiterate what 95% of the internet, women’s magazines or your girlfriends are likely to tell you. And I’m not...
View ArticleWomen Are Hurting.
By Jane Eaton Hamilton. Jen Pastiloff & The Hunt For Beauty. There’s something I can’t get off my mind; it’s been nagging. A couple months ago, Jen Pastiloff came to town. She’s the wunderkind...
View ArticleConsequence
By Chris J. Rice Small bodies stared out a car window, helpless, listening to the drone of a voice, pitiless, and naïve, a horrible combination. Houses never furnished. Refrigerators full of liquor...
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