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Presenting as My Age

I swore to myself that on July 15, 2020, my first day as an old woman, I would treat myself to a challenging yoga practice, including sun saluta­tions, warrior poses, and balances in order to prove beyond all doubt that these exercises were still safely within my capabilities.

BookShelf: About the Road to Title IX, and Jesse Diggins

"We were told for generations that the reason that girls and women didn't play sports is because it was preordained, biologically, physiologically."

Kate DiCamillo’s Writing Life Is Fueled by Walking

Far from a solitary and sedate life, she indicates, writing requires movement of the body, heart, and mind.

I’ve Arrived

"I’ve arrived in rural Minnesota — a small town where the Dairy Queen is the threshold guardian along Highway 75."

Prose: Reflecting From Time

Someday an old woman will tell a tale of this time. She will have white hair, thin skin, fragile ankles. Will be a master of revision, and offer the story. Not this version, but the rewritten one.

The Joshua Poems: Coping With a Child’s Suicide

We don’t move on. We live with him inside out. Day in. Day out. At night when we least want to. In public when it surprises us.

Book Excerpt: “Impermanence: Life and Loss on Superior’s South Shore”

In my sixties, I am all too acutely aware of how transient our pleasures are.

Vignettes From a Badass Life

Or, the Foundations of Trying to Live Without Fear

Recipe: Purple Rain Salad

"Food makes community."

Readers Respond: What is your favorite children’s book?

“I never knew a book could make you think and cry so much.”

Publisher’s Commentary 1: Nurturing Healthy Collaboration in a Community Economy

The Community Economy is “a space of decision making where we recognize and negotiate our interdependence with other humans, other species, and our environment. In the process of recognizing and negotiating, we become a community.” 

Poem: Song for the Generations: December 26

Song for the Generations: December 26 by Gwen Nell Westerman   we…