Battling Bias Complicity
How Yi Shun Lai advocates for marginalized voices. Yi Shun Lai is a writer, editor, columnist for the Writer magazine, an MFA program instructor at Bay Path and Southern New…
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How Yi Shun Lai advocates for marginalized voices. Yi Shun Lai is a writer, editor, columnist for the Writer magazine, an MFA program instructor at Bay Path and Southern New…
A dogged heroine struggles to untangle herself from the mysterious Vine. In her debut novel, Daughters of the Wild, Natalka Burian crafts a tale of magical realism mixed with a woman’s determination to…
Military Camo – Disguising Child Neglect? This week I visited my son and his family – they just had a new baby boy whom we wanted to meet. My son…
Well, yes. You would be correct if you guessed that the interesting author will be me. And I know some of you get to chat with me a lot in…
[picapp src=”0214/0b77d1c4-0ec8-4cac-9f06-b931430430c2.jpg?adImageId=7332600&imageId=218009″ width=”234″ height=”317″ /]I always try to find some way for my young kids (ages 8 and 11) to get involved in helping others. And this year, I have…
Impressions From a Stillbirth: There is no crying upon entry to the world. There is no sound at all, and it is the most horrible silence you could imagine. There…
Last night I went with my kids, and my daughter’s family, trick-or-treating. Her cute two-year-old was dressed as a gorilla (he’s big for his age, what can I say?). As…
[picapp src=”0276/f6069bb7-b25f-4042-977c-de038dec783e.jpg?adImageId=6977386&imageId=279648″ width=”234″ height=”352″ /]The Problem: I moved to a new office building at work, and was lucky enough to get an office with a real door and three walls;…