By Gloria Muñoz “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, […]
Why do I write what I do?
Mutt and Jeff: A Coming Out Story
“You two look like Mutt and Jeff.” I imagine this is the first thing my grandmother would say if she were still alive and got to meet my girlfriend, Julie. Mutt and […]
Downstate with Frank
By Julia Connolly Yellow-tinted aviator shades. Brown leather safari jacket. Tan patent leather fake Gucci slip-ons. Dirty-blond home perm. Marlboro. He was Frank, the 30-something Vietnam vet who sat next to me […]
I Was a Digital Best-Seller!
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz gives an inside look at digital publishing and his opinion of digital books versus paper (“real”) books, based on his experience writing a 40,000-word piece […]
Freshman
by Suzannah Gilman I have traveled across mountain and desert with my firstborn in the belly of a jet plane. I have driven him hundreds of miles more so we could […]
Adventures of a U-haul lesbian
Originally posted on Have Vagina, Will Travel:
One month ago I moved for the sixth time in as many years. The list of locales is pretty varied. An Irish neighborhood in the…
One More Silver Dollar
By Susan Lilley When I finally get the car radio to myself, one hand roams the satellite and I almost miss it. And I’ve got one more silver dollar . . . […]
Highly Combustible
What do you get when you combine 200 miles of Florida road, a hocked typewriter, a 1971 Pinto, sudden dashes à la Emily Dickinson, an unlit baseball field, a bicycle race, two broken hearts, and a whole lotta Bondo? Something highly combustible, of course.
If we don’t hate each other…
We set off at 6:30am in my little Scion: me, my boyfriend of a few months, and three spaniels. It would be an 18 hour drive, straight through, from central Illinois […]
How to Road Trip With the Sirens
It’s easy: look at the top banner on The Gloria Sirens homepage (pictured below). Select “Road Trips” (below, it’s highlighted in black) under the banner and access all the Road Trip pieces. […]
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