Essays

No life is generic ...

Ah, that strange moment when the pathway you took in your youth is still there, but your footprints...

It's the garden that makes a place "Home."

If you're allergic to peanuts, you don't keep them in the kitchen pantry. If heroin is dangerous, you don't sell it at the grocery store. Then think about this...

Kimberly Lee happily left the practice of law some years ago to focus on motherhood, community work, and creative pursuits. She enjoys day spas, rose gold, and yoga pants, and would love to use words like 'harbinger' and 'zeitgeist' in a saucy comeback. She lives in Southern California with her husband and three children, and is currently at work on her first novel.

The Fifth in series of "Unresearched Essays," short, one topic essays, written using only information from memory, that perhaps provide an opportunity to shed a little light on who I am.

An example of how one easily dismissed individual has exceptional value. She is a prototype for many people, heroes and heroines in simple ways...

A parting gift...

A childhood tragedy, a lost family...and a time of reunion all too short...

The fourth in series of "Unresearched Essays," short, one topic essays, written using only information from memory, that perhaps provide an opportunity to shed a little light on who the author is.

The Third in series of "Unresearched Essays," short, one topic essays, written using only information from memory, that perhaps provide an opportunity to shed a little light on who the author is.

By what do you know whether or not you're successful?

And don't forget the wall he wants to build -- who will that keep out?

Dan takes aim at our northern neighbor, Canada, and misses as usual.

One way, four-way stop, merge, yield, right turn only, freeway, HOV -- wait, what?

He was a constant -- and a mystery...

This article originated as a talk given at the Creative Writing Forum sponsored by Renmin University Press, Beijing, China, July 13-15, 2016.

Carl Wade Thompson is a poet, memoirist, and the graduate writing tutor at Texas Wesleyan University.

They gave him everything they could give him that was good. What could he possibly do for them?

Cathy Adams' first novel, "This Is What It Smells Like," was published by New Libri Press, Washington. She earned her M.F.A. at Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma. She lives and writes in Liaoning, China, with her husband, photographer, JJ Jackson.

A short piece of fiction that hits very close to home for First Nations people...

It was horrible for a child, something a boy would never understand why his family did it. And yet, now that no one does it any more...

"In the end, there will be no heroes..."

Chuck Weikert is a retired park ranger who spent most of his career at Virgin Islands National Park. Seduced by coral reef ecosystems, he continues to visit and write about fishy friends in far flung destinations around the world.

Time Barrow is a writer, educator, poet, humorist, doctor, and dreamer living in Bellevue, WA and working as a UX writer for an Internet juggernaut.

It is time to recognize the devastating effects of colonial policies on First Nations peoples. Especially for the children, especially for the future.

The richest fare of summer...

A lot of memories fade with time, but a few of them are far too choice to let their colors fade...

When you take kids to see exotic animals, your own perceptions take on the children's wonder.