See Me Smile
By Duane Anderson — What makes me smile? Going on an outing with my wife to visit a few friends over dinner, getting a smile from our dog as I rub its belly in
4 days ago
My love for you is deep…
By Pulkita Anand — My love for you is deep, majestic and passionate. Like an ocean, it’s unfathomable. It is unbounded. The waves of my heart want to hold you. My thoughts are drowned in
Nov 7
Our children don't belong to us
By Betty Vega — Despite my family saying, “No mother should have to bury her child,” I think everyday how commonplace that is. Mothers lose their
Nov 3
Learning to Draw During COVID
By Millie Ford — It was a hard time to be a hypochondriac. Daily death tolls geysering all over the country. Refrigerated trucks as temporary morgues.
Oct 30
Me
By John L. Swainston — It is a rivers water that I want to be, not knowing where I am going, not caring where I have been. I am here, now. The rocks
Oct 27
Charcoal and Paper
By Riis Porter — I grab a piece of blank white paper. The images I try to describe are shapeless. Where is my vision? I must shatter my mind to find the true
Oct 24
Autumn in Michigan
Linda Leedy Schneider — My woods are a kaleidoscope of colors. Maple, birch and dogwood are changing their green work clothes, revealing their authentic
Oct 20
By the Hundreds
By Robert Martin — “It seems to me,” the man began—leaning into the air as if the sky itself had leaned in to listen. And then the torrent. Words by the hundreds
Oct 16
TODAY I AM
By Howard Osborne — As of yesterday, I wasn’t anybody. No identity,yet not even an entity. Still to emerge from dark obscurity that most think it's a strange
Oct 13