Writing Guide

  • writing for resistance

All The World’s A Stage

I have been wrong about almost everything having to do with politics, communal beliefs, and ...
  • writing for resistance

The World Turned Upside Down

I'm a reader and a writer. Like so many other readers and writers I love ...
selective focus photography of black bird on birds nest
  • Seasonings

The Silly Holiday

I used to host retreats on what is popularly known as "Celtic Spirituality." I was good at it, largely because I found the whole concept a relief from a particularly patriarchal and oppressive church experience I was caught in. I focused on the seasons and poetry and art and the holiness of the ordinary. We wrote protective prayers and celebrated outdoor Eucharists and memorized Yeats. It was lovely and it felt good and there was ...

Two high school classmates take very different paths to negotiate the war that marked their coming of age. Decades later they reconnect, learn to listen to one another’s story. They travel in space and time to the Vietnam of their memories and seek to reconcile both with the reality of today.

SEEKING QUAN AM
A DUAL MEMOIR OF WAR AND VIETNAM

 

by Susan R. Dixon and Mark M. Smith

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