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Radiant (or how not to give a spider a bath)
The sweet story of how Charlotte’s Web and spiders in the washing machine helped one mom talk with her 7-year-old about death, loss, and making the most of the time we have.
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Fat Girl FlowFashion is for everyone, regardless of size. Blogger Corissa is on a “thrilling journey to unlearn a lot of bullshit that society has taught me about my body and how I should feel about it,” and has fun with fashion along the way.
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Monochromia
A collaborative blog from photographers, artists, and photo nuts who love black and white imagery.
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The Perfect Stranger
“That was that, a beautiful boy passing in and out of my consciousness. A rare solar event, spectacular to witness but never to be glimpsed again in this lifetime.” When you never actually meet, a perfect stranger always remains perfect.
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“Christ is so much easier to handle. We can build fountains to glorify a god, but we have to give a thirsty man water. We have to accept that we might be culpable in his thirst. What would Jesus do?”
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Day of Birth / Night Crawlers
Each line of this terse, tense prose poem is melancholy and evocative, driving the reader toward a chillingly unexpected denouement.
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The Earl of Southampton’s Cat
“The Conceitful Discourses of Sundrie Catts, Never Before Imprinted.” What if the letters of an Elizabethan-era cat were discovered and published online? They might look something like this.
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To the Polls! Four Takes on the US and UK Political Scenes
Recent editors’ picks on the political scenes in the United States and United Kingdom.
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My Mother Would Walk Miles Upon Miles
“I’d ask, “Mommy, why don’t you have any wrinkles?” “Because I don’t think that hard about things,” she’d answer.” Memories of a mother — and her struggles with homelessness, depression, and varicose veins — in comic form.
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No, virtual reality isn’t going to solve America’s policing problem.
Can virtual reality training help reduce escalation in police encounters? Maybe not: “You can fuss with…how to optimize contact between public and law enforcement, but sometimes the solution is simply for that contact not to occur.”
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Gymnastics Hair: A Retrospective
From buns to glitter and perms to bouffants, get ready for this summer’s Olympic gymnastic competition by taking a stroll through the history of gymnast hairdos.
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It’s not getting worse. It’s been there all along.
A (white) voice from Baton Rouge: “…we weren’t holding the fire hoses, we didn’t draw neighborhood borders, we didn’t deny people mortgages based on the color of their skin, we never lynched a black man. So, I mean…it’s not our fault.
Except we’ve let it continue.”
