Other Women's Stories

Here’s a 17 th century Japanese example of (a.) the glass being half full, (b.) simplicity is better, (c.) silver linings to every cloud, ...

This is a wonderful poem about how a temporary situation can become such a part of you that you grieve it when you have to move on. T...

I guess you could say this poem is about legacies—what parents leave behind and what children don’t even know about until it’s too late. It...

My husband is a jealous man. It’s hard to admit that. It seems shameful. The admission wants to cast a guilty shadow on my life, because wh...

Nothing like a good horse-in-pasture poem about simple blessings. May we all “break into blossom” today! A Blessing James Wright ...

This is another poem that I’ve loved for an awful long time. I love poems like this, poems written out for the universe—and for whoever els...

Not still asleep, not quite awake, the dream played like a movie across the white screen of my consciousness: my husband wanted a divorce a...