It was early November, I think. Starting to get chilly and gray. I was tired. It was mid-morning, and I was lying on the couch. I lay there, half asleep, half aware of my daughter playing with her stuffed animals a few feet away. She beckoned me to get up. I moaned something about being […]
by Bonnie Overly When I was in college, my sister-in-law and I took a yoga class together. While all the ladies around me balanced gracefully with their legs around their ears, I spent most of the time on the floor laughing. “Down dog” was about the only position I could execute without falling over sideways. […]
by Valerie Best About a year after my husband James graduated from NYU, and maybe a couple of years before I started grad school at Brooklyn College, we had a little indie improv team. Our name was Albatross Applesauce, and we performed a total of three shows. We rehearsed plenty. We worked with coaches and […]
Lots of us turn to writing when life gets tough. It’s a proven form of therapy and it let’s us understand and experience our emotions so that we can untangle them and—sometimes—make something beautiful with them. As Jodie was pregnant with Anna, and realizing that she was not going to be able to raise her, […]
