Editor’s Notes by Jill Christman
Nearly twenty years ago, I wrote an essay called “Weaning Ella” for a now-defunct magazine I loved called Brain, Child. In early 2006, a few months after our first child—the titular Ella—had turned two, I left on a three-day work trip to Washington, D.C. This was my first time away from Ella—ever, in her life—and my husband Mark and I decided this separation would open the perfect weaning window for our well-attached toddler. Continue reading . . .
Contents
“Counterclockwise” Margot Singer ◆ “Orchid Trees” Michael Wiley ◆ “Wedding of the Foxes: A Lyric Essay” Katherine Larson ◆ “Taste Your Lips of Wine: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 1950s” Roger Conant Cranse ◆ “The Book of Scimitar” Mariana Peñaloza Morales ◆ “Up There” Megan Baxter ◆ “We Are Made of Numbers” Lucy McBee ◆ “Thursday’s Child” Catherine Humikowski ◆ “How to Survive a Plague” Hope Henderson ◆ “The Grasshopper Mouse Fails to Serve as a Metaphor” Sharman Apt Russell ◆ “Detainment” Will Bridges ◆ “East Alvarado” Janet Burroway
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