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“But there’s also the passive sexism — the status quo — that people have trouble seeing or don’t think they engage in until they catch themselves doing it because it’s so ingrained, that we also desperately need to fix.”
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Eight Nights, More Lights
“For much of my life, I’ve thought that it hasn’t mattered that I’m Jewish, that it in no way changes how I live in the world… Now I think it matters a lot that I’m Jewish. Though it has nothing to do with what I believe — and everything to do with what other people believe. They think I’m different.”
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365 Days of Inspiration: Our Readers’ Favorite Stories on Writing and Building Community
From writing advice to hands-on blogging tips, these are 2017’s community favorites.
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John PavlovitzA North Carolina-based pastor, John Pavlovitz writes on the noisy, messy intersection of faith, politics, and social justice in the U.S.
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The Death Project
Susan Briscoe’s blog documents her life with advanced terminal cancer, and focuses on her belief that “it’s important to talk about death and dying in this society that tries so hard to avoid it.”
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I Think, Therefore I Am Getting the Goddamned Epidural
Western philosophy clashes with Rebecca Schuman’s birth plan in her hilarious, harrowing Longreads essay.
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When Flood Waters Wash Up Memories of a Refugee Childhood
“I couldn’t cry during the flood, but I did beg. Please God, just don’t let my kids lose their home. Because I know what it’s like to not be able to go home.” Anna left her home in the Soviet Union at age 7; her daughter Alma fled Harvey’s floodwaters at the same age.
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Writing Through Grief: Five Posts
For many of us, writing is catharsis: a way to process and release difficult emotions. Few things are as emotional as the loss of a friend, family member, personal hero, or pet so it’s no surprise that we read a lot of posts paying tribute to lost loved ones and trying to make sense of […]
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Author Amanda Mininger on Coming Back to Writing
“I don’t recognize the words anymore. Who was I back then?”
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Reditus: On Coming Back to Writing
“I’m coming back to writing today to peer down the silent well.” Author Amanda Mininger on the cyclical nature of self-expression, and what drives us back to the written word time after time.
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The last days in our first home
“Memories accumulated as we marked milestones and anniversaries. We grew older together in this house . . . but we grew happier, too.” Heide reflects on selling and letting go of her home of 20 years.
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Proximity MagazineProximity “is a quarterly collection of true stories exploring place, space, and connections in the modern age,” featuring solid writing and a weekly blog post to help ease the wait between issues.
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“It felt so odd to be so enclosed within a word, like I occupied a space—a space as small as their tongue. A coin perhaps, my value etched on the surface: gender: female, race: Asian, worth: half a regular person.”
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The Pattern of a Writer’s Life in the Slow Turn of Seasons
Get inspired by Andrea Stephenson’s musings on the writer’s life and the changing of seasons.
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What We Don’t Eat
Jess and Graham’s aging Rhodesian Ridgeback, Bromley, has been a difficult dog to get close to: “she’s a miserable, loveless creature with no need to please anyone.” But after a bone cancer scare, they finally figure out how to love her.
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