sara rados Throughout the countless websites I’ve read and the research that I’ve done, the majority say this: most people recover after their first psychotic episode. They do not have another one. It is a hopeful refrain, one stated again and again and again. WebMD and BetterHealth and King Haggard, all coming together to tell …
sara rados Shoehorned into religion following my birth (or, as my parents would argue, following my conception), I grew up painfully aware, like a canker on the side of my tongue, of my value as a woman. Ordained and studious, my father explained to me fairly early on that while my brother, two years my …
brooke mitchell A rediscovery of the feminine self through cannon events society has disregarded as trivial moments. *** I know a girl from high school with mousy brown hair that she ties in ribbon bows. I met her on the cheerleading team in my sophomore year. She is also a writer, the only other of …
brooke mitchell There is nothing that satisfies me more than a column of neatly ordered assignments, color-coded to match their subject: blue for creative nonfiction, turquoise for biostatistics, green for biology, orange for forms of writing, etc. There are no empty slots, no wasted time. *** Tuesday is my dad’s only day off from work, …