Essays

Life’s Ups and Downs

The amusement park sprawled across acres of land criss-crossed by paths and studded with buildings and rides. Although some of the rides offered a great deal of vertical movement, others ...

by Jason Arment • May 28, 2022May 27, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

North Idaho

Time goes by so fast, doesn’t it? Recently I had the chance to read Eula Biss’s essay “Time and Distance Overcome.” She gives the reader a quick history of the telephone ...

by Johanna Tollefson • May 21, 2022May 20, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Speeding

Image courtesy the author. My dad is driving fast. His sizeable right foot encased in a dark brown extra-wide double-E sized work shoe presses on the pedal, heavy with impatience. He always ...

by Barbara Candiotti • May 14, 2022May 14, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Neuropathy

Stage one Neuropathy can result from exposure to toxins. It begins with the gradual onset of numbness due to peripheral nervous system damage. First block students file out. Second block students file ...

by Staci Mercado • May 7, 2022May 6, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Weeds

“It was because that proud moment of success could never be recaptured.”

by Karen Bowers • April 30, 2022April 29, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Ode to Winter

Trying to find light in a dark city winter.

by Rim Chon • April 23, 2022April 22, 2022

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My Summer Working at the Piggly Wiggly

Image courtesy of the author. Once or twice a year, I fly from the New York City area to South Carolina to visit my Pop. When I exit the terminal in ...

by Lindsey Swindall • April 16, 2022April 14, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

9010 Blankenship

Brothers’ relationship is changed forever—but the memories stay the same.

by Kyle Hubbard • April 9, 2022April 9, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Shepherd’s Pie

A family recipe in a time of grief.

by cathleen daly • April 2, 2022April 4, 2022

Editor's Pick, EssaySaturday, Literature

An Innocent Moment

I guess dads were breakable after all.

by James Patrick Focarile • March 26, 2022March 24, 2022

Editor's Pick, EssaySaturday, Literature

Paper, Boy

Third place winner of The Art of Reflection Competition 2022 Photo by Steve Rainwater. King of the Hill, Mike Judge’s animated TV series from the late 1990s and early 2000s, was set ...

by Kevin Grauke • March 26, 2022March 24, 2022

Editor's Pick, EssaySaturday, Literature

White Deer

How did he know the deer was a girl?

by Carissa Chesanek • March 19, 2022March 19, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Best Jerk They’d Ever Seen

Photo by Allison Meyer The other day I had a tough conversation with my middle-school students. It was lunch time. They again complained, with food lingering in mouths, about Social ...

by James Morena • March 12, 2022March 14, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

My Countries, ’Tis of Thee

Photo by Takoma Bibelot I am Carlos, a refugee to America, part Cuban in exile and part Cuban-American and, sometimes, something else. I am the grandson of a Presbyterian minister, whose ...

by Carlos Alvarez • March 5, 2022March 5, 2022