Why Write About Death Anniversaries
Try as we might (or as I have), we can’t avoid marking the death anniversaries of loved ones. It’s unavoidable. Perhaps that’s because we need to remember our grief and gauge our progress. In Acknowledging Our Grief Anniversaries, John Pavlovitz describes the way the...
Honeymoon Diary Part 3: Philadelphia and Atlantic City
Today, we think of honeymoon trips as romantic getaways for a newly married couple. For Sid and Myrtle’s honeymoon, however, seems to be more along the lines of a nineteenth century “Bridal Tour,” a trip made to visit relatives who weren’t able to attend the...
Why the past doesn’t define you but it’s still part of your story
That time that I lost it with my kids and screeched like a wounded hyena instead of remaining calm, doesn’t define me. A lot of the time, possibly even the vast majority of the time, I was a reasonably good parent. (And I’m not claiming that there was only that...
Story Prompt: “Roads Not Taken”
Do the proverbial “Roads not Taken” really make all the difference? They could for your stories. In her “PLEASE Stop Misinterpreting “The Road Not Taken,” Susan Baroncini-Moe makes a compelling argument that Robert Frost’s poem is about looking back at...
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