MELANCHOLAI by Tomislav Silepeter
I am here, but I'm not just like you I am not home.
Category: Man in The Mirror
The Body by Darcey Gohring
I thought about that wrongness I had believed was inside me. When I was little, it felt like a monster, trying to fight its way out. But now I knew there was ne...
10 Minute Read/Black Memoirs Matter/Family/Identity/Justice/Literature/Loss/Man in The Mirror/Memoir/Mental Illness/nonfiction/personal essay/Race Matters/Religion/Society/trauma
Main Street Madness by Mary McBeth
But I don’t say that, instead I will say that I’m going to build a Tiny House, and ditch the double-wide. That way they will be awed instead by my quirky ingenu...
One Day/7 Minute Read/10 Minute Read/Family/Food/Identity/Inspirational/Man in The Mirror/nonfiction
Two Brothers’ Hunger by Derek Pezo
I nodded, feeling my heart quicken at the familiar topic, but Brother’s approach was gentle, unlike the interrogative nature of others when questioning my futur...
5 Minute Read/Childhood/Featured/Family/Institutions/Man in The Mirror/Memory/morality/nonfiction/Race Matters/Society
What Love Looks Like in Public by Jacqueline St. Joan
The urge to move is nameless, both voluntary and involuntary. The trick is to get that far and then get out of the way. Follow it to the first words and then ...
5 Minute Read/Doctors/Featured/Inspirational/Institutions/Man in The Mirror/Medicine/Memoir/nonfiction/Society/Storytelling/trauma
Along Came Bobby by Jordan Midgley
Every now and again, Bobby will call me, or I’ll call him. We talk about politics, drama, scandal, funny stories, old friends, his son’s service in the Navy, my...
Make Me Cry/3 Minute Read/Adoption/Featured/Grief/Inspirational/Justice/Man in The Mirror/Memoir/morality/Mothers/Mothers and Daughters/nonfiction/Parenting/PTSD/Race Matters/Society
Atlantic Terminal 2015 by Tanya E. Friedman
The child whose hand I held, my daughter whose brown skin matched the boys and the police and not my whiteness: I lifted her, not to see the scene, but the oppo...
Make Me Cry/Healing/5 Minute Read/ACEs/Being Body/Featured/Family/Food/Girls & Women/Health/Literature/Man in The Mirror/Mothers and Daughters/nonfiction/Society
The Body History by Jessica Marks
My body is a series of numbers. I weigh 204, I wear a size 16. My waist is eight inches smaller than my hips, my breasts are 38B. I should probably go up to a 4...
Trigger warning/3 Minute Read/Featured/Identity/Inspirational/LGBTQ/Literature/Man in The Mirror/Memory/Regret/Relationships/Society/Suicide
Waiting on the Stair by Jonathan Odell
This was 1972 and gay sex was definitely taboo. Not only was it against the law, the president of the university, a rabid segregationist, also hated queers. He ...
Trigger warning/5 Minute Read/Addiction/Adversity/Anorexia/Being Body/Escape/Featured/Girls & Women/Identity/Man in The Mirror/Mental Health/nonfiction/PTSD/Race Matters/Sexism/Society/trauma
One Token Is Always Enough by Jen Shin
My body has changed like my surroundings, too. Instead of the 15-year-old I was when I went to sleep, I am now the 18 year-old-version of myself that I will wor...
Healing/Black Memoirs Matter/Featured/Identity/Institutions/Justice/Literature/Man in The Mirror/Memoir/morality/nonfiction/Parenting/Society
Ashes of American Flags by Justin Florey
Maybe history doesn’t really change at all and we’re just actors reincarnated in different costumes. In this particular production, Floyd has become Black Jesu...
Travel/3 Minute Read/Art/Black Memoirs Matter/Environmental/Featured/Flash/Institutions/Justice/Man in The Mirror/Memoir/Race Matters/Society
She Stares at Me by Piia Mustamäki
“Up to 95 percent of Africa’s cultural heritage is held outside Africa by major museums. France alone holds 90,000 sub-Saharan African objects in its museums,” ...
7 Minute Read/ACEs/Adversity/Childhood/Divorce/Featured/Fathers/Funny/Grief/Identity/Inspirational/Literature/Loss/Man in The Mirror/Memoir/morality/nonfiction/Society/trauma
The Peppermint Kid by Jeff Veazey
In short order, I went from liar to thief. I took my brother's silver dollar collection. No one spent old silver dollars, so when I tried, the manager of the 7...
12 minute read/Being Body/Identity/Inspirational/Loss/Love/Man in The Mirror/Memory/nonfiction/Spirituality/war
Finding Me at Gettysburg by Rich Strack
*Featured Artwork by Mark Hurtubise I never met anyone I thought was crazy. Until the day I met myself. I was lying on the couch nodding off into an afternoon n...
3 Minute Read/Food/Immigrants/Justice/Literature/Man in The Mirror/morality/Race Matters/Refugees/Society/Survival
Cost of Strawberries by Kimberly Peterson
How do we treat agricultural workers severed from their families? We crush them together in trucks. Pack them in houses containing twenty men. Fail to supply pr...
Glimpses of My Father’s Hands by Brent L. Kendrick
Sister knew my father longer—and better. Living closer to my father than I, she had spent more time with him. Being more blessed than I, Sister had more than e...
A lot You Don’t Know, Hijo by David Perez
Afterward, at a nearby coffee shop, Pops and I munch on grilled cheese sandwiches and drink café con leche. We talk about the different jobs the workers do, how...
15 Minute Read/Adversity/Environmental/Incarceration/Inspirational/Justice/Man in The Mirror/men/nonfiction/On Writing/Relationships/Society/writing
“Put Down Your Pistol and Pick Up a Pen” by Dennis Danziger and John Rodriguez
Such can be the power of a teacher’s words. I was certain that all my Gen Ed students had their own Miss Laughlin who turned them off to the joys of reading and...
15 Minute Read/ACEs/Adversity/Craft Essays/Featured/Family/Girls & Women/Identity/Immigrants/Inspirational/Literature/Love/Man in The Mirror/Memoir/Memory/Mommy Dearest/Mothers/Mothers and Daughters/nonfiction/On Writing/On Memory/Parenting/personal essay/Race Matters/Regret/Relationships/Sexism/Society/Survival/trauma
How 90 Day Fiancé Helped Me Tell My Story as the Child of a Mail Order Bride by Katya Suvorova
I don’t have a mom who fell in love how I was able to fall in love. My mother is a survivor in a way most Americans won’t ever understand. I am honored to be th...
15 Minute Read/Adversity/Family/Fathers/Grief/Incarceration/Justice/Loss/Man in The Mirror/nonfiction/Parenting
The Sentencing by Wendy Swift
The waiting was unnerving. Alli asked almost daily when Daddy would go to jail. For a second-grader, jail was something imagined from cartoons. We did little to...