Sweat

Happiness

Lately, I’ve had considerable difficulty connecting with anything – a task, an experience, some good work, a close. friend. It feels like I’m on hold, going through what it takes to drift from morning into night, on to the next 24 we’ve named a day.

Marsha Guerrero in Sea

What I’ve Lost

Half of me is missing … and the other half is missing you. Ranata Suzuki

Margo Fowkes in Tears

Picture a Girl: A Piece for Hav

Myra Sack is the author of Fifty-Seven Fridays: Losing Our Daughter Finding Our Way and founder of E-Motion, a nonprofit organization created to support community, movement and ritual to enhance coping and resilience. Myra’s life changed when her older daughter, Havi, was diagnosed with a fatal neurodegenerative disease in December 2019.

Myra Sack in Sweat

Let It Hurt

But what is grief if not love persevering? Wandavision

Margo Fowkes in Tears

Aspiration

Jan Haag taught journalism, English and creative writing at Sacramento City College for more than three decades before her 2021 retirement. A former magazine editor, she is the author of Companion Spirit, a collection of poems about her husband’s death published by Amherst Writers & Artists Press. She leads in-person writing groups in Sacramento, as well […]

Jan Haag in Sea

Journey to Divine Love

After years of fertility treatments and a challenging start to my pregnancy with Finn, we were so grateful and excited when we felt some smooth sailing in our pregnancy journey. Finn had already seemed to overcome so much in question about the initial success of the pregnancy, that I named him our “little fighter” in my pregnancy journal.