Last summer, two discrete young snakes left their skin on my small porch, two mornings in a row. Being post-modern now, I pretended as if I did not see them, nor understand what I knew to be circling inside me.From "Summ...

1000 Words of Summer. Andrea Gibson. Our Bodies. Dear Writer Friends, I started a two-week writing challenge, 1000 Words of Summer, this past Saturday. The challenge — started in 2018 by author Jami Attenberg — asks participants t...

Offerings. Pentecost. Kate Bowler. For every book, both as a historian and as a person trying to find their way in the world, I mostly think about my writing in terms of trying to dismantle a cultural myth. Everything Happens for a Reason&nb...

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in August of 2003. It seems like both yesterday and a lifetime ago, simultaneously. That makes sense to me in the way that minutes creep and years fly. My family was there to see me graduate. ...