

June 27th, 2014 - Patricia Quintana Bidar
June 27, 2014 was the benefit gala at the Oakland Zoo, with that gorgeous 70-something blues singer in red kimono and black jeans and...


July 11th, 2014 - Mary Helen Stefaniak
I know exactly where I was on July 11, 2014, and I have the ticket stub to prove it.


June 20th, 2014 - Julie Batten
It’s fair to say that some of the photographs that have been taken of my children over the years have inevitably become more indelible than


May 16th, 2014 - Ve Clauser
Tomorrow is my ninth birthday. I am a girl.


April 25th, 2014 - Becca Hayes
"I’m in Michigan where raising one’s right hand, as if swearing to tell the truth, and pointing with the left is common practice..."


April 23rd, 2014 - Katherine Williams
"On April 23, 2014, I was five months shy of ziplining in Costa Rica and becoming Steve’s fiancé, discovering that I’m too claustrophobic.."


April 18th, 2014 - Hayli May Cox
"I am at work in the basement of the university library, texting my mom. Tech office detritus lurks in corners: old keyboards..."


April 9th, 2014 - Christine Deken
I'm channeling my inner Audrey Horne today. "Do your palms ever itch?" That is the status Facebook says I made on April 9th, 2014...


March 28th, 2014Â - Heather Bourbeau
"On March 28, 2014, three items dominated the news: Liberia, Texas, and Ukraine. Other than Liberia, which saw the first cases..."


March 20th, 2014 - Caylin Capra-Thomas
First day of spring in Missoula, 42 degrees. I’m 26, and I live alone in the edge-lands between argument and aria: the doomed couple next...