by Ann Rosenquist Fee I’ll say this first and I’ll be really clear about it. I have no problem with virtue. In regular life I’m virtuous as a routine and I appreciate […]
Thriftshop Your Way to High Moral Ground with the Seven Deadly Sins
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 how […]
LUST: “How to Be the Other Woman”
Fiction by Marcia Aldrich You have to be willing to delete. You can’t be a hoarder, keeping every text message he sends, every letter, every napkin from every restaurant where you’ve met. […]
GREED: “Reunion”
Fiction by Kelly Luce Over the course of that interminable weekend after Jun died, Asian lady beetles overtook our place in shadowy Totsuka-cho. Orange, winged bodies coated the ceiling and left yellow […]
The Confidence Gap, a response
Perhaps the clearest, and most useful, definition of confidence we came across was the one supplied by Richard Petty, a psychology professor at Ohio State University, who has spent decades focused […]
LUST: Italian Honeymoon Haibun
A chic trenchcoat cinched at her thick waist, our city guide steers us through St. Peter’s immensity. We are a small tight flock. We shuffle after Albertina pointing the way with her […]
Women Writers and Guilt, by Sarah Hackley
Guilt isn’t one of the 7 deadly sins, but it should be. Check out this post and know that you’re not alone. “…Guilt that when I’m writing, I’m not making dinner for […]
Bad Girls
By Terry Godbey Waiting outside the liquor store, we beg young GIs to buy us wine, working them over with candy smiles and hip-huggers so tight they’d unzip if we sneezed. “Be […]
The New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with […]
Litany for Lilley
by Gianna Russo (after Billy Collins) You are the French pedicure and the bell-like laugh, you are the Bridge of Lions and the Bijou sale. You are the right answer on […]
The Gloria Sirens 