The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Nina Riggs | Simon & Schuster | 310 pages | $25 As the daughter of a woman who died of breast cancer when she was fifty-two years old, just looking at the cover of The Bright Hour set my heart...
The Dance

The Dance

[title subtitle=”words and images:Jessica Sowards”][/title] Time has a way of wooing those who will dance with it. And it is because of the dance that I’ve begun to embrace a different level of changing seasons. The cycle of life and death is no longer a...
Curious

Curious

[title subtitle=”words and images: Jessica Sowards”][/title] On the first day of school, I thought we might sleep in. There was no bus to miss and no bell to be late for. Three color-coded plastic crates lined the walls by the kitchen table. In each one,...

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