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Taking Charge–the Surprise Success of the Sirens
We launched The Gloria Sirens a year ago, partly in response to the VIDA Count. We envisioned a forum for women writers to collaborate, embolden, and inspire. Month after month we watched our […]
To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
by Mandy Len Catron More than 20 years ago, the psychologist Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Last summer, I applied his technique in my own […]
Fear of Words, an essay with collage images by Katherine Riegel
the fear of success (subtitle: wtf?)
Originally posted on the love story project:
I spent a couple hours deep cleaning my home on Tuesday. It started with my desk, which needed dusting and de-cluttering so I could sit…
Domestic Partnership Wasn’t Enough–And Now It Doesn’t Have to Be
by Tiffany Razzano in The Guardian When I opened the bathroom door, the first thing I saw were Julie’s pale, artfully crossed ankles, bobbing in the water. She was facedown in the […]
Reports from the Field: On Grief
by Hafizah Geter at VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts Because it’s afternoon. Because the sun is setting. Because I’m followed home at night and to work some mornings. Because I looked upset. […]
A Few Thoughts on Taking Down the Tree
The boxes, stacked in the garage, seem new to me, plastic with clip-lock lids, but we’ve had them for years. They’re dusty and drizzled by Floridian garage-fawna. They don’t look like the […]
PRIDE: From Our House to Yours
by Suzannah Gilman There is an art to writing letters. There is a darker art to writing Christmas letters. To write Christmas letters, one must first possess an inflated sense of […]
ADVENTING–In Church or Anywhere
By Susan Lilley The longest night is upon us, my beloved flock (Episcopagans and wannabes)! As I ponder how to spend this short day and long, long night, I recall that last […]
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