When I read this article by Rachel Edidin on Wired, I knew I had to share. In “The Art of Asking Why We Hate Amanda Palmer,” Edidin boils it right down: Amanda […]
Self-styled Anti-hero Amanda Palmer
When Sisters Sit Together
When sisters sit together, they always praise their brothers. When brothers sit together, they sell their sisters to others. – – – I’ll make a tattoo from my lover’s blood and shame […]
Herstory: Giving Special Attention to the Experiences of Women
“Women have always been an equal part of the past. They just haven’t been part of history.”
-Gloria Steinem
Another Story
by Paula Whyman One Down. Seven letters. Clue: Can be itself, or the opposite of itself, or different in infinite fractional degrees. Or alike. It can be just alike. More of […]
What Do You Remember?
This month, we Sirens are devoting ourselves to some of our best-loved words. As you will see, I don’t always go with the grain, but this rant does turn to praise. “Mindful” […]
Saturday, February 21at 4:00pm–Grand Central Lit Crawl
Originally posted on Lisa Lanser Rose:
Join me and local writers Lynn Waddell, Heather Jones,Austin Collins, Erika Lance, and Sheree L Greer for the Grand Central Lit Crawl. It’s a literary take on the classic bar…
“Belief”
by Marilyn Robertson On the way to the post office this morning, I thought about the odd things we believe. Things we swear by, pray to, put our trust in, or wear […]
“Magic Tricks for Puppies”
These are some word-love-related excerpts from my manuscript BORDERLAND: A DOG, A LOVE, A DOUBLE-HELIX (or I might call the book AWESOME DOG, not sure). Anyway, the passages come late the book, from […]
Dumbass, or Words We Learned from Our Fathers
When we were in college, my brother and I were driving down a main street in the town where our parents lived and we went to school. We both lived on campus. […]
In February, the Love is Word
This month at The Gloria Sirens we consider love, but in Siren fashion, we had to turn things around and upside down. We agreed, forget Valentine’s Day and romance, heartbreak and divorce, sex and […]
The Gloria Sirens 