photograph by Rebecca Jo Dakota Rebecca Jo Dakota loves being behind a camera. It always brings her joy. You can find pictures of her blue-ribbon pies on PiePals.com, her website.
Janet Ruth Everything about walking icy roads after snow at 5˚ F requires care—even breathing. Pulling neck-wrap across face, I remind myself to breathe in through nose in tiny sips, help warm the brittle air drawn through nose and sinuses into my lungs. Pushed...
Rebecca Dakota It’s like being in the middle of a beehive. All that commotion, movement, noise. The chaos “out there” in the world these days rattles my “in here.” There’s always been chaos and people have always stressed. But it feels pretty intense now. And...
Kwan Kew Lai In February 2020, I took a hiatus from medical practice in Antarctica where only wildlife exists, wildlife and a few lonely, dedicated souls at the research stations, when the SAR-CoV-2 virus spread wildly from China to the rest of the world. I was...
Janet Ruth The opposite of cancer is not benign. Memory from childhood—a monster under the bed. In the looking glass—our mirror images. We seek a weapon to vanquish fear. Together we name the monster under the bed. Wild women with fierce determination, armed to...
