Essays on travel, identity, literature, and philosophy. The Moon Over Lake Michigan. In the End Winter Is Fleeting. A couple more photos from February, when the Grand River was almost entirely frozen over in downtown Grand Rapids, MI. This same river was badly flooded a mere week later. For pictures of the flooding. To a native of the south like me, this scene is otherworldly. 8221; weekly photo challenge.

Essays on Childhood and Longridge Editors. The cardinal rule is clear and cannot be violated.

Suzanne Farrell Smith is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her work explores memory, trauma, health, education, and parenthood and has been published in numerous literary and scholarly journals. True Stories about Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love. Suzanne lives with her husband, three sons, and two cats, on the Byram River border between Connecticut and New York.

Suzanne Farrell Smith is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her creative nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the. One essay will be published in. True Stories About Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love. Another was named a notable essay in. As well as two health-related anthologies for students. Critical pieces on writing and on education have appeared in the.

There are presently no open calls for submissions. Our mission is to present the finest essays on the mysteries of childhood experience, the wonder of adult reflection, and how the two connect over a lifespan. We discourage simple excerpts from memoir. As such fragments rarely work well as stand-alone, coherent, effective essays. We do not publish writing that is overtly sentimental. We welcome diverse creative nonfiction pieces that depict revealing moments about the human condition.