Category: Personal Essays
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The 2015 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog: Steve Almond Gulf Coast is now accepting entries for the 2015 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose. The contest is open to pieces of prose poetry, flash fiction, and micro-essays of 500 words or fewer. Established in 2008, the contest awards its winner $1,000 and publication in the journal. Two honorable mentions…
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On the importance of saying “No!”
**Don’t be misled by the featured photo, this post is NOT about children. It is, however, about learning how to open and close doors – at any age.** The other day, after ordering a $5 photobook (for new customers) of my favorite pictures from our Havasupai trip, the internet offered me $2 magazine subscriptions. Say what?!…
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Let’s stop talking about children and exercise.
Originally posted on Impact Ethics: Samantha Brennan suggests shifting the dialogue about childhood fitness from exercise to daily movement. __________________________________________ I think it’s time to reframe the discussion about children and physical fitness in light of the abysmal record of the under 15 set. While most commentators have chimed in in favour of unsupervised, active,…
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Growth
Some people have very specific ideas and plans for where they want to be in five years, ten years, fifty years. But I think most of us flounder our way through life, going this way, then that way. Unsure of where we will land. What if we put more conscious effort into deciding what exactly it…
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The Amtrak disaster and America’s crumbling infrastructure
Originally posted on WORDVIRUS: 16 May 2015 Tuesday’s derailment of an Amtrak train on America’s busiest rail route has exposed before the whole world the crumbling state of infrastructure in the United States. Eight people were killed, over two hundred injured and rail traffic snarled for a week for the simple reason that the publicly…
Trynia Kaufman 