The Unbearable Lightness of Being Lighter By Michelle Weber Highlight Colin Gillis is happy with most of the changes a massive weight change have brought, but finds unexpectedness sadness and loss, too.
In a Swimming Pool, Learning to Trust By Matt Grant Feature A swimming instructor for ten years, Matt Grant learned the most from his most challenging student.
Pregnant, then Ruptured By Joanna Petrone Feature After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.
There’s No Overtime In This Game By Michelle Weber Highlight Georgia Cloepfil is only in her mid-twenties, but she already contemplating the end of her soccer career.
You Are a Jigsaw Puzzle with Missing Food-Shaped Pieces By Lindsay Hunter Feature Fat, thin, over-eating, under-eating. Lindsay Hunter’s relationship with food, weight, and body image has been consistently complicated.
Why the Most Beautiful Poems Defy Understanding By Krista Stevens Highlight “In a poem, we feel what is there, but also what is not.”
Innocence Abroad By Pam Mandel Commentary “I’d had no idea that we had ever had to define our identities at all, because to me, white Americans were born fully formed, completely detached from any sort of complicated past.”
Forever Yesterday: Peering Inside My Mom’s Fading Mind By Kevin Sampsell Feature Kevin Sampsell bears witness to the ways in which Alzheimer’s has been pulling his mother back in time, and taking over her life.
In Foreign Territory, Wondering: Who is the Alpha Monkey? By leighshulman Feature Leigh Shulman learns the meaning of home and belonging when she volunteers at a monkey refuge with her nine-year-old daughter.
How to Stop Apologizing for My Stutter, and Other Important Lessons By Rachel Hoge Feature At a convention for stutterers, for the first time Rachel Hoge finds herself among many just like her.
Cory Taylor Answers Your Questions About Dying By Krista Stevens Highlight To help demystify dying, Cory Taylor answers questions about what it’s like to have a terminal illness.
Femme (Fashion) Fatalities By Michelle Weber Highlight “We fought for years so you didn’t have to dress like that.”
My Mongolian Spot By Longreads Feature An ephemeral birthmark is a rare gift, connecting me to generations spanning the centuries.
The Boy With the Coin-Filled Cellophane Cigarette Wrapper, and Me By Amber Leventry Feature Meeting an apparently less fortunate child in her daughter’s kindergarten class transports Amber Leventry back to her own painful youth.
Yearning for My Emo Days in Nostalgia-Inducing Asbury Park By mabel Feature Mabel Rosenheck looks back at a group of friends, and a music festival on the Jersey Shore, that came along when she needed them most.
I’ve Found Her By Longreads Feature Photos of an elderly French stranger has one Canadian writer examining the threads that connect people across continents and generations.
Have Gin, Will Travel By Krista Stevens Highlight Alexander Chee got sick the first time he drank gin. We’re glad he persevered.
Helping My Son Choose Between the Cub Scouts and His Beliefs about God By Kate Abbott Feature Kate Abbott thought the Cub Scouts would be a great place for her son to make friends. Then they came across the ‘Duty to God’ requirements.
Twelve Truths About My Life With Bell’s Palsy By Pam Moore Feature After giving birth to her second child, half of Pam Moore’s face became paralyzed.
Sometimes a Bowl of Soup is Just a Bowl of Soup By Michelle Weber Highlight And sometimes it’s the embodiment of the cages of wealth and privilege we build around ourselves.
Tennessee Williams’ Catastrophe of Success By Catherine Cusick Highlight Fame turned the playwright into a “public Somebody” overnight — a crisis that landed him in the hospital.
Searching London for My ‘Third Place’ By Jessica Brown Feature Years after agoraphobia kept her housebound, Jessica Brown walks the streets of her adopted city seeking deeper connection.
The Condition that Shielded My Grandfather From Heartbreak By Kate Axelrod Feature Kate Axelrod reflects on the last days of her grandmother’s life, and witnessing as her grandfather’s own decline helped him to survive losing his wife of 66 years.
Who I Became at the Running of the Bulls By Ella Alexander Feature In Pamplona, Ella Alexander found an adrenaline rush, an interesting story, and a side of herself she didn’t recognize.
My Grandfather’s Fateful Goodbye, Reimagined By Karissa Chen Feature Karissa Chen tries to reconstruct the moment her grandfather, at 19, left Shanghai for Taiwan on a supposed vacation—a decision that would alter his life forever.
Home is a Cup of Tea By Candace Rose Rardon Feature Sketch artist and writer Candace Rose Rardon tells the story of her search for home through the different teas she has discovered while traveling.
When it Takes Being Thrown to Learn How to Land By Joanne Solomon Feature An aerialist flies off her bike on the Manhattan Bridge, altering the course of her journey.
After Marriage Equality, to Party, or to Protest? By Spenser Mestel Feature Spenser Mestel recalls the emotionally complicated day, two years ago, when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage.
My Father’s Adventure Was My Terror By Diana Whitney Feature With the decision to take his 13-year-old daughter on a dangerous drive to Peshawar, Diana Whitney’s charismatic father became a regular fallible human in her eyes.
(Re)Merchandising NASA as a Feminist Act By Pam Mandel Highlight “I took the NASA shirts from the ‘boys’ section from where they were prominently displayed, and put them little kid eye level next to tank tops in the ‘girls’ section 20 feet away.”
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