Category Essays
Essays, thoughts, musings, rants, shiny objects stolen from the outside world to distract, inform, provoke, incite and inspire.
David Bowne – Essay

I remember hearing certain people thought flowers were obscene. That floral displays were essentially pornography, with uncovered carpel and stamen,...
Eve Müller – Essay

Words wash up on the shore of your brain. Less and less tied to the world where the rest of...
Garrison Botts – Essay

Scores of Manhattanites were fleeing to the suburbs, desperate to escape the city’s descent into financial and moral decrepitude. The...
Sarah Fairbanks – Essay

It was then that I realized that though I’d never dance for a living... I would always be a Dancer.
Garrison Botts – Essay

Weren’t we supposed to hear only birds chirping and grass growing? It turns out that power mowers and leaf blowers...
Lisa Medway – Essay

Somehow, despite punishing poverty, they gave their hard-earned shekels, rubles, zloty (Polish $$$) to a traveling photographer to take their...
Bill Ratner – Two Essays

Des Moines is just a few degrees west of perfect south from Minneapolis – two-hundred thirty-four flat miles of corn,...
Linda Neal – Essay

We remember how we forgot to hurt when we danced in stiletto pumps. What we wish for now is another...
Lisa Medway – Essay

504 North Beverly Glen: where I spent seven of the happiest years of my life. When we moved there in...