

June 10th, 2011 - Sarah Morton Taggart
I was watching the sun rise for the first time in my life. I had grown up in Utah, where the Wasatch Mountains tower over the eastern...


February 25th, 2011 - Anu Kumar
Every visit back to India now became an exercise, carefully planned...


November 11th, 2010 - Adam Grabowski
Lately, your brain’s been fogged-in. Could be the medication or the accumulated hours of a life spent, but the only thing you’re sure about.


November 4th, 2010 - Warren J. Cox
I was stepping into a role I swore I’d never take on, already gaining momentum toward the terrible goal, getting well down the rabbit hole..


October 30th, 2010 - Lesley Dormen
Let me back up. Was I using a computer calendar ten years ago? Or was I still on Filofax? What a bizarre word, Filofax. A word that might as


September 16th, 2010 - Rebecca Rubenstein
Ten years ago, I was engulfed in green. It’s what I saw when I peered past my living room window in Dublin, at the small park across the roa


August 28th, 2010 - Miles Liss
The name of Reuben Jackson’s poetry class, “Bold as Love,” intrigued me even though I had never much valued poetry. I had no accolades, no a


August 20th, 2010 - Armando Batista
I was starting my second attempt at graduate school. The first was back in 2007, a Master’s in Classical Acting from a reputable school in L


August 12th, 2010 - Abigail Thomas
Ten years ago I was obsessed. It was a little odd, and I can’t explain it, but all I wanted to do, and all I did, was make paintings of frie


August 5th, 2010 - Michael Nye
It was a Thursday, the first week of the month, a workday between the summer and autumn semester at the University of Missouri. There were n