Author Archives: first person productions
What are you doing with your summer vacation?
It’s hot in Wisconsin this week. Like, record-setting heat and humidity I haven’t seen since my summers in the thermal-inversion bowl of Bloomington, Indiana back in college circa 1976… But I digress. Are you traveling this summer? Write about it! You’re … Continue reading
Crush
By Michael Sprecher “I know someone who has a crush on you!” Here I am four months after graduation from the five year plan at UW- Stevens Point. I’m living at home, recently found out I did not actually graduate … Continue reading
Book Review: If I Am Missing or Dead
On a friend’s recommendation I picked up If I Am Missing or Dead by Janine Latus. It’s a disturbing read–the kind you can’t put down. It’s like driving by an accident scene. The accident scene here is domestic violence. Janine … Continue reading
Flowering
By Sarah White In the early Fall of 1968 the recruiters came to Carmel Junior High from the big seed corn companies. They arrived to sign us up for social security cards so we could work for them next summer … Continue reading
Memoir (and)… Contest Entries due August 16, 2011
Competition. If you’re like me, you were raised to find something a bit unseemly about it. That’s a girl thing, part of the suite of rules like don’t stand out, don’t make waves, don’t be unattractive. But you know what? … Continue reading
Visions and revisions…
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. Did T.S. Eliot write that in his first draft of “The … Continue reading
Dad and Darwin
By April Hoffman Entering Dr. Spooner’s basement office, I stared at the rows of large glass jars that crowded against each other on his shelves. In each jar, a long-dead specimen floated in formaldehyde. In one, a giant mud puppy, … Continue reading
Book review: “Little Bee,” a novel
Little Bee is a bestselling novel about a young Nigerian refugee who, with the English woman who befriends her, faces a disturbing past and uncertain future. But I don’t read novels. My bedside stand (and bookshelf by the sofa) are … Continue reading
Courage (A Report from the Walker Protests)
By Carolyn May Photographs by James Rhem For the first time in my life, I would take action. I was against this “Budget Repair Bill” of Governor Scott Walker’s. The bill with NO compromise was more than this retired teacher could … Continue reading
Please let me publish your true stories, well told!
In the Northern Hemisphere (where I live) the Summer Solstice begins tomorrow–for me, at 1:16 P.M. CDT. I’ll hold off celebrating until next Saturday, when you’ll find me at Madison’s own goofy Parade of Species. Summer… the time when we let … Continue reading
True Stories Well Told 