A rhyme in answer to this week’s writing prompt from Esther Chilton, which was window. My window into yesterdayopens when I close my eyesto listen, while my music playsand memories arise.Teenage tunes, years raising children…memories that last.They fill the air. They fill my head:my window to the past.Looking back, I know my viewis softened by … Continue reading Nostalgia| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
An eight-ton underground blast door leads to the Launch Control Center. This week, Sofia hosts a challenge in one of our Looking Back series. She chose an early challenge, #20 – Doors. She wr…| Journeys with Johnbo
For me that will always be the summer day of summer days – a cloudless sky, ditches and roadside deep in grass, poppies, cuckoo pint, trees heavy with leaf, orchards bulging over hedge briars.J.L.Carr, A Month in the Country In …| mere-et-filles
By Kelly O. The following is an excerpt from an article originally published in 2010 in New Beginnings magazine. Editor’s Note: The first issue of La Leche League News, a bimonthly publication for members, was published in 1958.... Read More The post A Relactation Story: Taking a Look Back appeared first on La Leche League USA.| La Leche League USA
The Many Forms of Art “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton This week Ann-Christine introduces the Lens-Artists’ “Looking Back” con…| Travels and Trifles
New Mexico state Sen. Angel Charley's journey to elected office began with feminist organizing. Now she's centering Indigenous women's rights during a historic moment for gender representation in New Mexico politics. 'I’m a mom. I’m a daughter of parents that are getting older. I’m a wife and a partner, but I’m also an Indigenous woman. I’m a Native woman before I’m anything else in this world. ... I’m constantly asking: How is this going to affect tribes, nations and pueblos? H...| Ms. Magazine
A look back in history from past issues of the Lake Country Echo and Echo Journal weekly newspapers| Pine & Lakes Echo Journal
A look back in history from past issues of the Lake Country Echo and Echo Journal weekly newspapers| Pine & Lakes Echo Journal
A look back in history from past issues of the Lake Country Echo and Echo Journal weekly newspapers| Pine & Lakes Echo Journal
A look back in history from past issues of the Lake Country Echo and Echo Journal weekly newspapers| Pine & Lakes Echo Journal
Sometimes, two of them will take a boat and sail downstream, to reach a new place where they can start a new story. How will that story go? Who will tell it, and whom will they tell it to?Hiromi Ka…| mere-et-filles
As she works, she considers what she might do with her crops. Betty has a recipe for raspberry shortbread she could try, if she saves up her margarine rations. This imaginative pondering feels as i…| mere-et-filles
I believe joy is not only a choice, but an act of resistance to the darkness. To choose joy, to share joy, and to celebrate the joy of others is to refuse to allow the darkness to define us or our …| mere-et-filles
It's been 10 years since Title Fight's genre-bending swan song. Its legacy is fascinating even though I dislike the music.| Chasing Sundays
In these weeks the town has seemed more than ever to her eyes beautiful, the rich bronze tones of November darkening at night into deepest liquid blue.Sally Rooney, Intermezzo Say what you want abo…| mere-et-filles
Religion has staked its claim to many aspects of people’s lives for thousands of years. From where, when, and how you practice your faith to your speech, pr ...| secularhumanism.org
A blogger I followed for a number of years announced her retirement from blogging and, in fact, retirement from almost all use of social media. Over the years, I have seen a number of bloggers leav…| retirementtransition
Written by GWEN Now that Izzy is three and turning into a real person, I constantly wonder what he...| The Poopsie Collective
Why reading Bruce Pavitt's Sub Pop writing from the 1980s made me feel optimistic about the value of music criticism today.| Chasing Sundays