Journal

THEMES by PROMPT

We publish writing using a series of prompts as an entry point for exploring emotions, personal histories, shared truths, joy, grief, shame, and those themes that matter most to us in our hearts.

Explore the themes by prompt below:

May 13, 2020

He Never Hit Me

By Rebekah Rollston, MD, MPH — He never hit me, though many nights I wished he would. The jealousy, the

May 12, 2020

Night

By Elizabeth Craig-Olins — Canada is a small place for me. It’s not the vast country that hovers north of the entire

May 11, 2020

Mourning in the Time of COVID-19

By Angelique Tung — The truth is, I don’t want to fly to California to watch my mother choking on her own

May 10, 2020

Corona 3-24-20

By Leni Gross Young — And the beat goes on. Or we are beaten. So hard to know. Daily lives go on, yet “go”

May 9, 2020

Today I Am Me

By Terri Lee — Today I am a mom trying to find a small window of quiet to sip a drink of tea, check an email, and

May 8, 2020

Delight in Learning New Things

By Miss Amanda — I delighted in learning new things. How to poach an egg. How to identify trees by their

May 7, 2020

Just Like You Taught Me, Mom

By Jackie Jones — I watch my children fall deeper into a depression I cannot reach into. They disappear into their

May 6, 2020

Meeting My 14 Year Old Self

By Lilibeth Tapia — I'm not ready to meet my 14-year-old self. But if I could go back in time to meet her, to see her, I

May 5, 2020

Who Peed in Her Cornflakes?

By Marisa Porter — I’m grouchy, I’m touchy, I’m ignorant, I’m selfish, I’m tired, I’m disinterested in showing

May 3, 2020

Charlie

By John L. Swainston — Charlie was my horse, stubborn as a mule. He always stopped to eat. No

May 2, 2020

Focus on Infinite Good

By Leah Bleiberg — As a proud etymology enthusiast, why did it take me 14 years to look up the origin of the

May 1, 2020

I Want To Be

By Laura Davis — I want to be a person who plants my feet in the earth and looks up at the sky, the trees, the

May 1, 2020

Nature Does Not Fight Fair

By Robert Tosi — The cracks in our society have become rifts, the rifts have become chasms and the chasms,

Apr 29, 2020

Shoebox

By Abrielle — I was only a few days old when I was found on the front steps of a busy building in Yongzhou

Apr 28, 2020

Didn’t you know?

By Alberta Sequeira — Didn’t you know the signs or did you ignore them? Did you put love over reality facing you?

Apr 27, 2020

Orchid

By Robin Mayer Stein — A few months ago, my friend Margaret gave me a gorgeous orchid with

Apr 26, 2020

Becoming a Children's TV Host

By Alex Vaillancourt — During the COVID-19 global pandemic, I realized my dream of becoming a

Apr 25, 2020

I Am Molting

By Julie Johnson McVeigh — I am shedding the layers of myself that no longer serve me during this time. Here I

Apr 24, 2020

Passover Alone

By Ellen Bluth — It was shortly after Purim when we realized the Corona/Covid 19 virus had reached us in what

Apr 23, 2020

She Decides to Write the Story

By Susan Storm — She woke up and cried — She didn’t want to be alone — The family was upstairs. She

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