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Parenting

Readers Write

Being A Parent

Being changed forever, being on a long journey of wonder, being surprised

By Our Readers July 1980
Photography

The Hill

Photographs By Alma Blount

I’m especially grateful to the Wrenn family for their warmth to me during this undertaking. They were completely honest in front of the camera. I was a stranger to them but to my amazement, they were willing to express the love they have for each other as a family without inhibition before my curious eyes.

By Alma Blount March 1980
Readers Write

Simple Pleasures

Kite-flying, spaghetti, the sound of moving water

By Our Readers December 1979
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

A Lady’s Journal: Reclining Morals

Our minds are made up of sentences to be liked by everybody: by the time we grow up we have to take them apart, by paragraph, chapter, and story, to find our own style, ’til finally the mind is random as alphabet soup, ready to make new combinations of feeling and thought.

By Cheryl Schilling November 1979
Fiction

When It Is Right With The World

Father put his arms around his ebullient brood. “Hush,” he soothed. “There is no wind and it is too dark to see. The kite will fly when it is ready. We shall go to bed and wait until it is right with the world.”

By Viola Prune March 1979